Bringing the Sociology of Media Back In

Benson, Rodney

doi:10.1080/10584600490481299

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“…This is frequently seen as a problem for society as it affects the diversity of actors and viewpoints represented in public debates (Cook, 1998;Schudson, 2003;Thompson, 1995). The key concern is that increased ownership concentration in a given political communication environment may lead to a more 'narrow ideological debate' in the media (Benson, 2004;Curran, 2006).…”

Section: Concern 3: Towards Increasing Power Concentration and Decreamentioning

confidence: 99%

Political communication in a high-choice media environment: a challenge for democracy?

Aelst

Strömbäck

Aalberg

et al. 2017

Annals of the International Communication Association

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During the last decennia media environments and political communication systems have changed fundamentally. These changes have major ramifications for the political information environments and the extent to which they aid people in becoming informed citizens. Against this background, the purpose of this article is to review research on key changes and trends in political information environments and assess their democratic implications. We will focus on advanced postindustrial democracies and six concerns that are all closely linked to the dissemination and acquisition of political knowledge: (1) declining supply of political information, (2) declining quality of news, (3) increasing media concentration and declining diversity of news, (4) increasing fragmentation and polarization, (5) increasing relativism and (6) increasing inequality in political knowledge. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Concern 3: Towards Increasing Power Concentration and Decreamentioning

confidence: 99%

Political communication in a high-choice media environment: a challenge for democracy?

Aelst

Strömbäck

Aalberg

et al. 2017

Annals of the International Communication Association

637

347

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“…Following Hallin and Mancini, my discussion below is divided into four sections. In the first section, I begin by analyzing journalists' professionalism-defined as the media's professional norms and practices (Benson, 2004;Klinenberg, 2002). Section two examines political parallelism.…”

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Mixed Signals: Democratization and the Myanmar Media

Burrett

2017

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This article investigates the media context of Myanmar's recent political reforms and transition of power. Drawing on interviews with 57 Yangon-based media professionals, the article analyzes the media's role as both an agent and subject of political change as Myanmar prepared for parliamentary elections in November 2015. It asks to what extent changes in the Myanmar media system adhere to existing theories of the media's role in the democratization process. Specifically, the article analyzes the features and functions of Myanmar's media during the country's liberalization from 2010 to 2015. The article concludes by assessing what Myanmar's experience adds to our theoretical understanding of the media's transformation during liberalization.

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“…Some of this work has been inspired in part by previous studies exploring the formation of journalism as a distinct occupation in the US (Dooley, 1997;Schudson, 1978Schudson, , 2001) and comparative research (e.g. Esser, 1997;Benson, 2004Benson, , 2006Chalaby, 1996Chalaby, , 1998Hallin and Mancini, 2004) that has helped to show how different political and cultural contexts have shaped journalism and journalists' practices, and created different professional norms against which journalists and others may judge their work. The norm of objectivity, for example, has been identified as central to American journalism's claim to professional distinctiveness (Schudson, 1978; 2001) but appears to have been much less important in the UK (Hampton, 2008).…”

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“…Also influential in the study of the history, formation and practice of journalism has been the work of Pierre Bourdieu and, in particular, what has become known as 'field theory' (Benson, 2004(Benson, , 2006Benson & Neveu, 2005;Neveu, 2007). In essence field theory is an attempt to explain the relative autonomy of social actors in different spheres of human activity that occur within society.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%