Mediatization in context: Consensus culture, media and decision making in the 21st century, the case of Finland

Who Gets on the News? The relation between media biases and different actors in news reporting on complex policy processes

“…Media coverage of policy processes in governance networks is therefore an important study object, deserving more attention in public administration research. This is particularly true in times of increasing mediatization within present-day Western democracies, in which the media and their logic have become more and more important (Mazzoleni and Schulz, 1999;Hjarvard, 2008;Hajer, 2009;Strömbäck and Esser, 2009;Reunanen et al, 2010).…”

The Effects of Media and their Logic on Legitimacy Sources within Local Governance Networks: A Three-Case Comparative Study

“…These trends in the news can also be found in other studies on media content (see Brants and Neijens 1998, Semetko and Valkenburg 2000, Brants and van Praag 2006, Kleinnijenhuis et al 2006, Strömbäck and Shehata 2007. Many scholars argue that societies and societal institutions are submitted to, or become dependent on, the media and their logic to an increasing degree; they are increasingly mediatised (Mazzoleni and Schulz 1999, Hjarvard 2008, Strömbäck and Esser 2009, Reunanen et al 2010. In the context of politics, Mazzoleni and Schulz (1999, p. 250) argue: 'mediatized politics is politics that has lost its autonomy, has become dependent in its central functions on mass media, and is continuously shaped by interactions with mass media.…”

The Mediatization of Network Governance: The Impact of Commercialized News and Mediatized Politics on Trust and Perceived Network Performance

“…The options for building trust relations within governance networks and reaching satisfactory network performance can vary depending on the social context in which the network operates. An important transformation within this context is the mediatization of society in general and politics in particular (Mazzoleni and Schulz ; Cook ; Hjarvard ; Bennett ; Reunanen et al ). Many scholars believe that news media and their logic have a significant impact on society, even to the extent that media logic overrules other institutional logics, such as political logic (Mazzoleni and Schulz ; Fischer ; Cook ; Hjarvard ; Strömbäck ).…”

“…Variation in media attention is on the one hand caused by coincidental factors, but on the other hand by certain characteristics of the project. Scholars describe a mutually reinforcing relation between conflicts in policy processes and commercialized news (Baumgartner and Jones ; Reunanen et al ; Esser and Matthes ). Conflicts between the actors involved can be a trigger for more commercialized news, and negative, sensational, and/or inaccurate news can trigger conflicts.…”