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- Shehata, Adam, 1981-, et al.
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Members of Parliament, Equal Competitors for Media Attention? : An Analysis of Personal Contacts Between MPs and Political Journalists in Five Countries.
- 2010
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In: Political Communication. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1058-4609 .- 1091-7675. ; 27:3, s. 310-325
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Power relations between politicians and journalists are often depicted as an ongoing tango with one actor leading the other. This study analyzes interactions between politicians and journalists not by posing the question of who leads whom, but rather by investigating which politicians are invited to dance in the first place, and which are better positioned to take the lead. Building upon theories and past research into press-government relations, comparative politics, and an economic perspective on journalist-source relations, three groups of hypotheses on a personal, party, and political system level are derived and tested using a unique survey with members of parliament (MPs) in five democratic corporatist countries (Belgium, The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark). The results display a similar pattern in all five countries where parliamentary experience and institutional position increase the frequency of contacts that MPs have with journalists. While these party variables have a more modest influence on the frequency of contacts, it is also shown that there are clear differences between countries attributed to parliament size in general and higher inter-MP competition in particular.
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- Esser, Frank, et al.
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Political Information Opportunities in Europe : A Longitudinal and Comparative Study of Thirteen Television Systems
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In: The International Journal of Press/Politics. - New York : Sage Publications. - 1940-1612 .- 1940-1620. ; 17:3, s. 247-274
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study examines the supply of political information programming across thirteen European broadcast systems over three decades. The cross-national and cross-temporal design traces the composition and development of political information environments with regard to the amount and placement of news and current affairs programs on the largest public and private television channels. It finds that the televisual information environments of Israel and Norway offer the most advantageous opportunity structure for informed citizenship because of their high levels of airtime and a diverse scheduling strategy. The study contributes to political communication research by establishing "political information environments" as a theoretically and empirically grounded concept that informs and supplements the comparison of "media systems." If developed further, it could provide an information-rich, easy-to-measure macro-unit for future comparative research. © The Author(s) 2012.
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- Strömbäck, Jesper, et al.
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Exploring Some Antecedents of the Media's Framing of Election News : A Comparison of Swedish and Belgian Election
- 2010
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In: International journal of press-politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 1940-1612 .- 1940-1620. ; 15:1, s. 41-59
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Despite the major importance of the news media's election news coverage, there are still only a few cross-national studies on how the media cover elections. There are even fewer that include both newspapers and TV news and that probe possible antecedents of how the media frame politics in their election news. Against this background, this article compares the media framing of election news in two countries-Belgium and Sweden-that constitute highly similar cases and both belong to the democratic corporatist model of media and politics. The study focuses on the importance of media channels, media types, and commercialism as antecedents of the media's framing of election news.
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- Strömbäck, Jesper, et al.
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Why Political Parties Adapt to the Media : Exploring the Fourth Dimension of Mediatization
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In: International Communication Gazette. - : Sage Publications. - 1748-0485 .- 1748-0493. ; 75:4, s. 341-358
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- One key concept in research on how the media influence political processes is mediatization, which denotes a long-term process through which the media have become increasingly independent from politics and through which political actors and institutions have become increasingly dependent on the media. While it is often claimed that politics has become increasingly mediatized, the process of mediatiza- tion has not yet been properly addressed in the literature. Against this background, and based on the literature on mediatization and strategic party behavior, the pur- pose of this article is to theoretically explore the processes through which political parties become mediatized, and to suggest a model of media adaptation by political parties.
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