The Propaganda Model: Still Relevant Today?

Robinson, Piers

doi:10.1007/978-1-137-32021-6_5

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“…This gives an idea of how significant are news media to Twitter. They also report, confirming the results of Robinson [21], that the traditional notion of gatekeeping and news production have not changed, and large news organizations still control what is newsworthy. Moreover, they show that news entities do not use the social media to engage with their audience but rather as a way for content dissemination (mostly by redirecting users to their own websites).…”

Section: Online News Dynamics Coverage Biassupporting

confidence: 58%

“…More recently, Robinson [21] evaluates if the introduction of new communication technologies and the Internet have affected the influence of the economic structure over the news media system. He argues that even though there has been a shift from the printed news to the digital media (newspaper website audiences grew by 7.4% in 2012 [22]), the news cycle is still controlled by the big news corporations.…”

Section: Online News Dynamics Coverage Biasmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Understanding news outlets’ audience-targeting patterns

2019

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The power of the press to shape the informational landscape of a population is unparalleled, even now in the era of democratic access to all information outlets. However, it is known that news outlets (particularly more traditional ones) tend to discriminate who they want to reach, and who to leave aside. In this work, we attempt to shed some light on the audience targeting patterns of newspapers, using the Chilean media ecosystem. First, we use the gravity model to analyze geography as a factor in explaining audience reachability. This shows that some newspapers are indeed driven by geographical factors (mostly local news outlets) but some others are not (national-distribution outlets). For those which are not, we use a regression model to study the influence of socioeconomic and political characteristics in news outlets adoption. We conclude that indeed larger, national-distribution news outlets target populations based on these factors, rather than on geography or immediacy.

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Section: Online News Dynamics Coverage Biassupporting

confidence: 58%

Section: Online News Dynamics Coverage Biasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding news outlets’ audience-targeting patterns

2019

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“…The part played by traditional and social media in world affairs has been the focus of much research in IR and FPA (see Herman and Chomsky 1988;Schedufle 2000;Robinson 2011;Katz 2017;Miler, Robinson and Bakir 2017;Aran and Fleischmann 2019; see also, Sheafer and Shenhav 2009;Treisman 2016;Zeitzoff 2017;Benmelech and Klor 2018). Indeed, FPA has for long been interested in several issues related to traditional media-from its influence on diplomacy and foreign policy formulation related to humanitarian crises, to how framing techniques are deployed in foreign policymaking and government propaganda, to the impact of public opinion and the capacity of foreign policy elites to "manufacture consent" (Herman and Chomsky 1998;Robinson 2011;Katz 2017;Miler, Robinson and Bakir 2017;Aran and Fleischmann 2019). More recently, FPA and IR scholars have focused on the influence of the entertainment industry and social media platforms on various aspects of foreign policy.…”

Section: Deductively Unearthing Analytical Blind Spots In Existing Fp...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Updating the Study of Foreign Policy Crisis: The Case of the Mavi Marmara Flotilla

Aran

Yishayahu

2022

Foreign Policy Analysis

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The study of foreign policy crises (FPC) is integral to foreign policy analysis (FPA). However, since the end of the Cold War, debate on FPC has stalled. The present article seeks to update the existing FPA literature on FPCs. It uses a deductively driven approach to identify gaps in the current FPC literature and demonstrates their relevance for a real-world case of FPC, namely, the Mavi Marmara flotilla. The latter is identified as a “least likely” case study which is representative of a broader set of what we refer to as asymmetrical FPCs. Maximizing the inferential leverage entailed by this research design, we advocate for an updated FPA approach to study asymmetrical FPCs that includes actor hybridity, performativity, and social media.

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“…Mass media analysis was carried out within various theories, such as the theory of mass society (Swingewood, 1977;Shils, 2000;Haas, 2019), where the mass media is regarded as one of the fundamental tools for dissemination of mass culture; the theory of information society (Lutterbeck, 2006;Kozlova, 2014;Yessenbekova, 2018a,b), in which information and the means of its dissemination play a crucial part in the development of society; and the theory of propaganda (Ross, 2019;Robinson, 2015;Farkas, 2018), where the media are treated as a tool for manipulating public opinion, etc. Different approaches focus on various aspects of the mass media; however, mass communication is viewed primarily as a socially conditioned process, which serves as the basis for forming individual and group-mediated behavioral patterns (Konetskaya, 1997;Yessenbekova et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

Effect of the Media Environment on the Advertising Market in Russia

Tretyakova¹

2020

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The development of the media environment and the advertising market is closely interrelated. The current research demonstrates that this relationship is more significant than previously thought. Addressing Russia's advertising market's case study, we analyze the major trends and establish the media environment's effect. To do so, we put forward several hypotheses designed to elucidate the ongoing changes. Statistical and structural-dynamic analysis of development indicators of the media sphere and advertising in 2010-2019 and analysis of macroeconomic data led to the conclusion that Russia's advertising market has considerable unfulfilled potential for growth. The research results indicate a structural shift towards a growing share of Internet advertising (3.97 times), while all other media market segments are shrinking amid deepening industry diversification. The study confirms the hypothesis that the advertising market is dramatically affected by the level of internet penetration, investments in the media and content sector, and the size of the profit and loss balance of organizations (potential advertisers). The hypothesis that there is a correlation between the growth of the advertising market and the growth in the number of organizations operating in the economy was not confirmed. Based on the regression models, we produce a scenario forecast for developing Russia's advertising market for 2020-2024. Depending on the action factor, its growth potential ranges from + 5% to + 27% during the indicated period. One of the avenues for further studies is searching for useful tools to stimulate market development based on the patterns identified.

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The Propaganda Model: Still Relevant Today?

Cited by 8 publications

References 28 publications

Understanding news outlets’ audience-targeting patterns

Understanding news outlets’ audience-targeting patterns

Updating the Study of Foreign Policy Crisis: The Case of the Mavi Marmara Flotilla

Effect of the Media Environment on the Advertising Market in Russia

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