Previous edition: 2010. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
12. pt. I Conclusion. 1. Political Bias -- Examples of media bias -- Bias matters -- Defining bias -- Types of bias -- Detecting bias -- Beyond bias -- Conclusion -- 2. Telling Tales: The Reporting of Politics -- Frames versus biases -- Producing news -- Creating the demand for news -- Genres and the representation of politics -- Telling political stories -- We the people -- Explaining political stories -- Conclusion -- 3. It's Just for Fun: Politics and Entertainment -- Representations of politics -- The politics of the fictional -- Politics as a joke -- Politics as conspiracy -- Entertainment as propaganda -- Entertainment as identity -- Conclusion -- 4. Media Effects -- Early claims of media manipulation -- Researching media's political effects -- Under the influence? Research findings -- Television and voting behaviour -- Social media and their political effects -- Influence beyond the ballot box and beyond the news -- Elite effects -- Media consumption in context -- Conclusion -- pt. II THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MEDIA -- 5. State Control and State Propaganda -- Systems of control -- Censorship -- Secrecy -- Propaganda -- Regulation -- Comparing media systems -- Conclusion -- 6. Conglomerate Control: Media Moguls and Media Power -- Media empires -- Does ownership of media conglomerates result in control over media content? -- The power of Rupert Murdoch -- Readers and viewers -- Advertisers -- Reconsidering media power -- Conclusion -- 7. Tech Giants and the Global Webs of Media Power -- The new media emperors -- Media go global -- Before the rise of the giants -- A history of the future -- Webs of power -- Conclusion -- 8. Watchdogs or Lapdogs? The Politics of Journalism -- The manipulative power of spin? -- The rise of churnalism -- The decline of investigative journalism -- Models of journalism -- Journalism in transition -- Conclusion -- pt. III MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY -- 9. Transforming Political Communication? From Political Marketing to Celebrity Politics -- Marketing politics -- Sales techniques: the elements of political marketing -- The rise of the celebrity politician -- The case of Donald Trump -- From performance to reception -- Celebrity politics and democratic politics -- Conclusion -- 10. Digital Media, Digital Politics? -- Transforming politics? A five-step programme -- Digital democracy or digital dictatorship? -- Conclusion -- 11. Power and Media -- Discursive power -- Access power -- Resource power -- Theories of media power -- Conclusion -- 12. A Free Press? Democracy and Media -- Liberal democracy and the free press -- The value of free speech -- The limits to free speech -- Free press/free market? -- Bias, impartiality and representativeness -- Access -- Journalism -- Public sphere and public service -- Conclusion.
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