The Media and Political Process

by Dr Eric Louw (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2010

  $186.36

  Lively, approachable, critical and fully updated edition of Eric Louw's assessment of media activity and political communication in liberal democracies.

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $3.25

  Has the mediaization of politics played any role in encouraging a growing cynicism and disillusionment with political processes in Western democracies?

  This book 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-ized politics

  Eric Louw uses a number of case-studies including political, celebrity, war and terrorism to provide a media studies perspective on how media workers (journalists, public affairs officers, spin-doctors) impact upon the political process.

  The book also considers the media's role in promoting a range of twentieth century ideologies and emerging dominant discourses.

  It will be important reading for students of Media, Politics, Cultural Studies; Journalism and Public Relations.