Indicating mediatization? Two decades of election campaign television coverage

Zeh, Reimar; Hopmann, David Nicolas

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“…Non-election coverage is considerably more focused on political issues and provides a more descriptive style of news indicating media content governed by political logic rather than by media logic. The empirical findings of this study are thus in line with the process-oriented description of mediatization suggesting that the degree of mediatization is dependent on a variety of factors and varies over time and space (Zeh and Hopmann, 2013 The results furthermore suggest that news reporting is guided by different dynamics in different contexts. Differing journalistic norms, routines and practices could be a function of specific circumstances of political journalism.…”

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“…The degree to which news media content is mediatized can be indicated by the degree of media interventionism in news coverage and can be expected to vary across time and space (Esser, 2008;Strömbäck and Dimitrova, 2011;Zeh and Hopmann, 2013). It is thus conceivable that the degree of mediatization varies between election coverage and non-election coverage, and furthermore that assumptions made about the mediatization of political news based on election coverage research cannot be taken for granted.…”

Section: Political News Journalismmentioning

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Political news journalism: Mediatization across three news reporting contexts

Falasca

2014

European Journal of Communication

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Election coverage has a tendency to frame politics as a strategic game, to increase the role of journalists as interpreters of issues and events and to include a conflict frame, and thus indicating increased mediatization. However, political news research outside of the election indicates that news media are less independent from political actors. Drawing on literature on mediatization, media interventionism, political news journalism, news framing and source use, the purpose of this article is to empirically investigate whether election coverage is representative of other political journalism in terms of degree of mediatization. The study is based on a systematic comparison of three content analyses using the same coding schedule and procedure from coverage of the Financial Crisis 2008, the Election Campaign 2010 and routine political news coverage 2012 in Sweden. The main conclusion from this study is that mediatization of media coverage is substantially influenced by the specific context of the news.

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Political news journalism: Mediatization across three news reporting contexts

Falasca

2014

European Journal of Communication

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“…There has been some illuminating work done on this (see Zeh and Hopmann, 2013;Dimitrova, 2011 andMaurer andPfetsch, 2014) but more multi-country studies on mediatization are needed if we are to understand fully the drivers and inhibitors of these processes across countries.…”

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Mediatization: key concept or conceptual bandwagon?

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Stanyer

2014

Media, Culture & Society

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Mediatization is emerging as an influential new concept that places the media at the centre of all kinds of important cultural, political and social developments. However, it has so far attracted little critical evaluation. In this article the authors identify three areas of concern, namely, how causal processes are thought about, how historical change is understood, and how concepts are designed. It is hoped this article will contribute to the development of mediatization by generating critical debate and reflection, to prevent the term from being applied so inconsistently and indiscriminately that it becomes a 'concept of no difference'.

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“…The theory does not claim that media influence was absent in the past, but rather that it has grown over time. Strangely enough, this claim is seldom backed up by longitudinal data that actually show that media impact is on the rise (but see Zeh & Hopmann, 2013;Elmelund-Praestekaer, et al, 2011).…”

Section: Mediatization: the Influence Of The Media Is Growing?mentioning

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The Evolution of the Political Agenda Setting Concept in Foreign Political Studies

Александровна

2017

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Introduction: Political agenda-setting and mediatization as distinct worldsAgenda-setting is one of the most influential theories on the media's political influence (Graber, 2005). While often focusing on the media's impact on public opinion, another equally important facet of agenda-setting theory has the media's influence over the agendas of political actors and policy makers as its central object of investigation. Scholars use the term 'political agenda-setting' and in some instances 'agenda building' to refer to the transfer of media priorities to political priorities. Despite the growing popularity and importance of political agenda-setting research, it has seldom been conceptualized as part of or related to the mediatization of politics.For several reasons, political agenda-setting studies and mediatization studies have developed as almost completely distinct research schools (but see Van Noije, Oegema, & Kleinnijenhuis, 2008). Political agenda-setting studies share a strong empirical focus. They deal mainly with testing the effect of the media agenda on the political agenda in different contexts and circumstances. The basic question underlying most of the research reads: does more journalistic attention for an issue lead subsequently to more attention for that issue by politicians? With the help of sophisticated methods such as time series analyses researchers have been able to provide a nuanced and detailed answer to this question, identifying a set of contingent factors that determine the size and strength of the effect. While being empirically strong and analytically sophisticated, political agenda-setting work has, until recently, remained somewhat undertheorized. In particular, insights on why and how politicians adapt 2 to the agenda of the media are still in need of elaboration. Furthermore, agenda-setting focuses only on thematic priorities and it remains unclear how the impact of the media on issue agendas relates to other types of influence.The literature on mediatization, on the other hand, has been characterized by a broader theoretical input and goals (see chapter 1 and Y?), as well as by a broader scope covering media influence on several areas outside politics. The thesis on mediatization of politics provides an overarching view on the role of the media in the political system, and is in this volume defined as a long-term process through which the importance and influence of media in political processes and over political institutions and actors has increased (see chapter 1).While being strong on conceptual discussions and theoretical perspectives, the mediatization literature is lacking in empirical research.. Admittedly, some recent studies explore mediatization empirically. For instance, related to the 3 rd dimension of mediatization (see chapter x), Strömbäck and Nord (2006) find that journalists retain the most power over the content and framing of news while other studies document how mediatization of news content is stronger in the US compared to Europe (Strömbäck & Dimitrova, 2011;...

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Indicating mediatization? Two decades of election campaign television coverage

Cited by 79 publications

References 50 publications

Political news journalism: Mediatization across three news reporting contexts

Political news journalism: Mediatization across three news reporting contexts

Mediatization: key concept or conceptual bandwagon?

The Evolution of the Political Agenda Setting Concept in Foreign Political Studies

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