"Mediatization" of Politics: A Challenge for Democracy?

Mazzoleni, Gianpietro; Schulz, Winfried

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“…Mediatization refers to a situation where media not only has become a central part of the public sphere, but even the main frame of reference in society. Media influences how politics is framed and perceived and set the terms of action for politicians, stakeholders, and other participants in public discourse (Asp and Esaiasson 1996;Mazzoleni and Schulz 1999;Schulz 2004;Strömbäck 2008). ''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.…”

Section: Media and Public Discoursementioning

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Framing Environmental Risks in the Baltic Sea: A News Media Analysis

Jönsson

2011

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Scientific complexity and uncertainty is a key challenge for environmental risk governance and to understand how risks are framed and communicated is of utmost importance. The Baltic Sea ecosystem is stressed and exposed to different risks like eutrophication, overfishing, and hazardous chemicals. Based on an analysis of the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, this study discusses media representations of these risks. The results show that the reporting on the Baltic Sea has been fairly stable since the beginning of the 1990s. Many articles acknowledge several risks, but eutrophication receives the most attention and is also considered the biggest threat. Authorities, experts, organizations, and politicians are the dominating actors, while citizens and industry representatives are more or less invisible. Eutrophication is not framed in terms of uncertainty concerning the risk and consequences, but rather in terms of main causes.

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Section: Media and Public Discoursementioning

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Framing Environmental Risks in the Baltic Sea: A News Media Analysis

Jönsson

2011

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“…In an oft-cited analysis at the turn of the millennium, Mazzoleni and Schulz (1999) asked whether changes in political communication and the growing influence of the mass media presented a challenge to democracy. While their review of the evidence suggested that the most dystrophic assessments were unwarranted, they still concluded 'political systems in most liberal democracies are facing momentous changes on the communication front that raise serious challenges to the old order ' (p. 259).…”

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

Aelst

Strömbäck

Aalberg

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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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“…Under conditions of mediatization, 'media logics', and, in particular the commercial logic of the media industries in marketing public attention, increasingly become a frame of reference for the 'staging' of the political process and thus of democracy (Mazzoleni and Schultz 1999). Mediatization becomes in this sense a key notion for political legitimacy research.…”

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Mediatization of Politics

Esser¹,

Strömbäck²

2014

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ABSTRACT:The mediatization of politics is generally explained in relation to the legitimacy requirements of the modern state and as such, it is typically confined to the national media sphere. Can we speak in any meaningful way of mediatization beyond the national? The European Union (EU), which operates under increasing legitimacy constraints and is exposed to the salience of media debates that contest its public legitimacy, is a case in point. Is the EU becoming mediatized? And what are the effects of EU mediatization? Under what conditions can the mass media become a facilitator of European integration? The issue at stake is whether the media (new and old) can have an integration function beyond the national and facilitate the building of democratic legitimacy of the European Union. We propose that the concept of mediatization offers the theoretical and analytical tools necessary to understand precisely how the interaction between the EU polity and the media unfolds and how it impacts on the process of the EU's public legitimation. First we deliver a general account of mediatization, highlighting its core definers and main points of critique that the concept has attracted. We then show how mediatization is relevant to the EU polity and propose an analytical model that can capture this process empirically.

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"Mediatization" of Politics: A Challenge for Democracy?

Cited by 1,090 publications

References 17 publications

Framing Environmental Risks in the Baltic Sea: A News Media Analysis

Framing Environmental Risks in the Baltic Sea: A News Media Analysis

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

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