The news media have significant influence on the formation of public opinion. Called the agenda-setting role of the media, this influence occurs at three levels. Focusing public attention on a select few issues or other topics at any moment is level one. Emphasizing specific att…
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The Media and Political Process examines the increasingly topical subject of the political process and assesses: The nature of the relationship between mass media and the political process The impact of media-ization on existing political frameworks The implications of media-ize…
This provocative book takes a new approach toward understanding the uneven flows of global communications, focusing on areas of the state, the market, and society. Wielding a political-economic view of communication and culture, this international group of authors follows intere…
This volume examines how media have brought about or placed dramatic political events in Southeast Asia since the 1980s. It highlights a situation where media dynamics are no longer a simple formula of state control versus media resistance. The state can propel its own media-lib…
This encyclopedia offers an interdisciplinary perspective on political, technological, psychological, cultural and economic aspects of media and communications on the international scene.
This encyclopedia offers an interdisciplinary perspective on political, technological, psychological, cultural and economic aspects of media and communications on the international scene.