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Media-state relations in emerging democracies
\"With most of the world's population living in states that have begun the process of democratisation, Media-State Relations in Emerging Democracies examines the critical interface between the news media and the state in these countries. What is the media's role in the democratisation process? And how does the state intervene in, co-opt or prescribe the national discourse? Using a series of case studies, including South Africa and the People's Republic of China, this original work proposes a new framework for understanding media-state relations in the world's emerging democracies. Bringing together a wide range of knowledge and literature from multiple disciplines together with personal insights and experiences gained during his career in global political journalism, Adrian Hadland explodes some of the myths of current thinking about the media and democracy and looks ahead to the role journalism ought to be playing in the 21st century\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Routledge International Handbook On Electoral Debates
This Handbook is the first major work to comprehensively map state-of-the-art scholarship on electoral debates in comparative perspective. Leading scholars and practitioners from around the world introduce a core theoretical and conceptual framework to understand this phenomenon and point to promising directions for new research on the evolution of electoral debates and the practical considerations that different country-level experiences can offer.
Three indicators to help analyse electoral debates inform this Handbook: the level of experience of each country in the realisation of electoral debates; geopolitical characteristics linked to political influence; and democratic stability and electoral competitiveness. Chapters with examples from the Americas, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania add richness to the volume. Each chapter:
Traces local historical, constitutive relationships between traditional forms of electoral debates and contexts of their emergence;
Compares and critiques different perspectives regarding the function of debates on democracy;
Probes, discusses, and evaluates recent and emergent theoretical resources related to campaign debates in light of a particular local experience;
Explores and assesses new or neglected local approaches to electoral debates in a changing media landscape where television is no longer the dominant form of political communication;
Provides a prospective analysis regarding the future challengers for electoral debates.
Routledge International Handbook on Electoral Debates will set the agenda for scholarship on the political communication for years to come.
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Media and Democratic Transition in South Korea
Since South Korea achieved partial democracy in 1987, the country has moved away from authoritarian political control. However, after two decades of democratic transition, South Korea still does not have a strong liberal, individualist culture - something that has brought about a wide range of scholarly discussion on the nature of democracy practised in this dynamic country. While the political changes in South Korea have received rigorous attention from Western scholars, less attention has been given to the changing nature and role of media in this and other such transitions. This book focuses on the changing role of media in the more democratised political landscape of South Korea. It thereby contributes to debates about the emerging role of the media in democratic transition, especially in relation to approaches that go beyond traditional Western constructs of media freedom and the relationship between the state and the media. In addition, it discusses the complex interacting forces that affect the role of the media and their implications for state control and democratisation.
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The role of English language proficiency on political socialization and democracy
English, as the lingua franca and given that Anglo-Saxon countries predominantly uphold democratic principles, this underscores how English could become a tool that promotes a worldview favorable to democracy. The objective of this paper is to examine the impact that English language proficiency has on political socialization and to assess whether proficiency in English can be linked to the promotion of democratic values in nation-states. Utilizing Microsoft Excel the paper conducts a quantitative linear regression analyses to test the relationship between English proficiency measured by the English Proficiency Index (EPI) from Education First to measure the English language skills of 90 nation states and democratic governance measured by the Liberal Democracy Index from V-Dem. The paper finds a positive correlation between English proficiency and democratic values in nation-states. However, the study does not establish English-language media consumption as a statistically significant mediating factor between the two variables. Instead, the paper identifies economic indicators (GDP-PPP), historical factors (colonial history, Commonwealth membership) and heads of states publicly speaking English as positive indicators for English proficiency. The paper underscores the need for further historical analysis and aggregated media studies to fully comprehend how language and media play a role in political socialization.
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Global Entertainment Media
A critical cultural materialist introduction to the study of global entertainment media.
In Global Entertainment Media, Tanner Mirrlees undertakes an analysis of the ownership, production, distribution, marketing, exhibition and consumption of global films and television shows, with an eye to political economy and cultural studies. Among other topics, Mirrlees examines:
Paradigms of global entertainment media such as cultural imperialism and cultural globalization.
The business of entertainment media: the structure of capitalist culture/creative industries (financers, producers, distributors and exhibitors) and trends in the global political economy of entertainment media.
The \"governance\" of global entertainment media: state and inter-state media and cultural policies and regulations that govern the production, distribution and exhibition of entertainment media and enable or impede its cross-border flow.
The new international division of cultural labor (NICL): the cross-border production of entertainment by cultural workers in asymmetrically interdependent media capitals, and economic and cultural concerns surrounding runaway productions and co-productions.
The economic motivations and textual design features of globally popular entertainment forms such as blockbuster event films, TV formats, glocalized lifestyle brands and synergistic media.
The cross-cultural reception and effects of TV shows and films.
The World Wide Web, digitization and convergence culture.
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Populist rhetoric and digital politics: a case study from a Facebook campaign in Israel's 2022 elections
This study examines far-right politicians' use of social media to advance their political agendas and mobilise voters. It focuses on a case study of Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's former Minister of National Security. It highlights his rise to power through the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party, which secured six parliamentary seats in the 2022 Knesset elections. We used automation tools to collect 1552 posts from Ben-Gvir's Facebook page during the year leading to his political victory, followed by qualitative analysis through two primary lenses: key messaging and stylistic devices. Our investigation revealed that Ben-Gvir employed a combination of anti-elite messaging and linguistic discourse characterised by informal colloquialism, absolutist rhetoric, and negativism to attack his political adversaries. This study sheds light on the capacity of social media to serve as a launching pad for inexperienced politicians seeking entry into the mainstream by directly engaging with their audiences using tailored messages.
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