Mass media and political issues / [edited by] Alexandra Prentiss.

Includes index.

Mass media’s manipulative potential in political discourse -- Information warfare technologies in political discourse -- Politics in the Olympic games -- Internet aggregators constructing the political right wing -- Misrepresentation of the Bosnian war by western media -- Journalistic coverage of political and financial crises and the “Issue” of political corruption -- Reshaping the hegemony -- Negotiating the political self on social media platforms -- Politician 2.0 -- Political communication: a study on the use of new media in politics -- Examining the dynamics of crosscutting exposure and political expression in online social media -- Social media and citizen journalism -- Political campaigning 2.0 -- Public opinion and multiplatform journalism -- E-democracy remixed -- Fair lady: effective coverage of politics in a women’s magazine -- Exploring the agenda-setting potential of homeland online newspapers on receptions of elections issues among diasporic Nigerians in Malaysia -- Politics backstage-television documentaries, politics and politicians.

"The relationship between politics and mass media has existed since the inception of the nation of state. It is a complex, often fraught, relationship, in which audiences, discursive actors, and agendas shift frequently. Mass media provides a dual function when it comes to political issues. Some articles featured in this book will deal with the traditional relationships between politics and mass media, including propaganda, expose, and hegemony. Traditional top down media, such a newspapers and television broadcasts, inform the populace of what is occurring in politics; the newer forms of citizen-generated platforms, such as social media, can also inform the politicians of their constituents’ concerns. Here, we will be examining these dual roles: how the media shape citizens’ attitudes and behaviors in relation to politics, and also how citizens are in turn able to influence the political process in new, and sometimes revolutionary, ways. Different aspects of the interplay between audience and politics, including agenda setting, and targeting demographics will be highlighted in several case studies. No consideration of the relationship between politics and mass media is complete without a discussion of the sue of mass media as propaganda, or a tool of manipulation, by politicians, as “mass media’s manipulative potential in political discourse”, will illuminate. The use of the Internet and mass media for propagation of ideas and propaganda is not limited to intra-national contexts, but is also relevant on the geopolitical level, as “Information warfare technologies in political discourse” shows..."--Back cover.

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