Using parallel content analysis to measure mediatization of politics: The televised leaders’ debates in Canada, 1968–2008

Bastien, Frédérick

doi:10.1177/1464884917751962

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“…Althaus et al (2001) used PCA to study the relationship between different types of media content, that is, The New York Times Index entries, lead paragraphs and headlines of the same stories. And Bastien (2018) used it to consider the dynamic relationship between politics and journalism. In this study, PCA enabled me to combine the interview and media content data to examine the relationship between them in the coverage of African conflicts, thereby filling a gap in framing research.…”

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“…In analysing the stories, I generated a code for judgmental style, factual style, strategic frame and governing frame from claims and findings in previous studies (Armentia and Marin, 2018; Bastien, 2018; Brookes, 1995; Bunce et al, 2016; D’Angelo, 2002; Dekavalla, 2016; Iyengar, 1991; Kothari, 2010; Myers et al, 1996). To classify stories under a judgmental style, I looked for references to judgment-based words such as ‘warlords’, ‘savage’ and ‘barbaric’.…”

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“…A World Economic Forum report notes that ‘the continent achieved average real annual GDP growth of 5.4% between 2000 and 2010, adding $78 billion annually to GDP’ (World Economic Forum, 2016). Such positive news can only make the front page when journalists project a balanced view of Africa and adopt a ‘factual style’ which focuses ‘on events, actions or current situations, with an emphasis on the “what”, “who”, “when” and “where” questions, generally without judgment-based adjectives or adverbs’ (Bastien, 2018: 7).…”

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Shaping the perception of African conflicts through framing: A case study of the African diasporic press in the UK

Ogunyemi

2018

Media, War & Conflict

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Framing studies consistently conclude that the international news media represent African conflicts negatively and stereotypically. Owing to their focus on media content, however, most framing studies fail to examine the dynamic relationship between journalists' cognitive role (what they say they do) and their practice role (what they actually do). Using parallel content analysis, this study compares what African diaspora journalists write about African conflicts with what they say about them. The analysis reveals that they show a preference for a factual style and a governing frame, and less preference for a judgmental style, which aligns with what they say, and a slight preference for background context which marginally aligns with what they say. However, low newsroom budgets and advertising revenue could undermine their attempts to de-Westernise the portrayal of African conflicts.

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Shaping the perception of African conflicts through framing: A case study of the African diasporic press in the UK

Ogunyemi

2018

Media, War & Conflict

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“…In a party conference context, for instance, Finlayson and Martin () explored the contribution of political speeches to understanding political institutions, ideologies and strategies, by analysing the rhetoric of Tony Blair's last speech as PM, while Pettit () focuses on identifying civic republicanism in Spain by analysing José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's speeches as an PM. There are also some parallel studies on televised leadership debates using content analysis (Allen et al, ; Bastien ). In this article, we separate the party leader and the party MPs in a parliamentary context to compare their stance in the parliament and explore how this dilemma of representative versus responsible government is articulated in parliamentary discourse in these separate roles.…”

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Analysing Crisis Parliamentary Discourse in Greece: Whom Should We Blame?

Ladi

Tsagkroni

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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This article analyses differences in the varieties of political rhetoric on structuring and legitimizing argumentation and strategies during periods of economic and political crisis. Driven by developments in theory about blame‐shifting and the exogenization of the causes of crisis as well as employing advanced techniques of analysis, it focuses on the parliamentary bailout debates in Greece during the crisis period (2009–2015). By means of computer‐assisted content analysis it analyses the content of arguments on blame‐shifting. It shows that blame‐shifting is much more complex that just blaming the external enemy and often takes the form of historical blame‐shifting, turning the blame onto previous governments. It reveals that party leaders often use a much more polemic discourse than members of parliament. Finally, it shows that blame‐shifting diminishes once a party comes to power, following arguments on representative versus responsible government.

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“…Although mediatization assumes the process of media influence, it is not limited to media effects, implying much more thorough and multi‐faceted transformations of cultural and social life (Hepp, ; Schulz, ). The concept of mediatization of politics can be also juxtaposed with one of the most essential theories of political communication and media effects, that is, agenda setting (Bastien, ; McCombs, ), that investigates the relationship between media agendas and political or policy agendas. In this respect, it is worth noting that the difference between these two approaches lies mainly in the causal logic that is applied in media effect research (agenda setting).…”

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Mediatization: Conceptual developments and research domains

Nowak‐Teter

2019

Sociology Compass

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Mediatization is nowadays considered an influential theory explaining societal, political, and cultural alterations driven by media technologies. Mediatization research, initiated almost 20 years ago (with its precursory ideas placed in the first half of the 20th century), witnesses at present dynamic theoretical, methodological, and empirical developments, obtaining a status as one of the most essential and ambitious research fields within the social sciences. Mediatization theory deals with (meta)process in which media communication is becoming increasingly complex, takes place more often, covers a growing number of topics, and lasts longer. The goal of this study is to contribute to our understanding of mediatization as well as to make the theory more familiar to non‐media scholars by presenting the state of the art and the most promising research lines of scientific inquiry. Starting from conceptualization and operationalization, we also aim to sketch the dimensions, fields, and forms of mediatization as well as to present examples of different domains where mediatization is most advanced, that is, mediatization of culture, society, and politics, or most promising, that is, mediatization of journalism.

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Using parallel content analysis to measure mediatization of politics: The televised leaders’ debates in Canada, 1968–2008

Cited by 11 publications

References 33 publications

Shaping the perception of African conflicts through framing: A case study of the African diasporic press in the UK

Shaping the perception of African conflicts through framing: A case study of the African diasporic press in the UK

Analysing Crisis Parliamentary Discourse in Greece: Whom Should We Blame?

Mediatization: Conceptual developments and research domains

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