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Markus Wagner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Who Gets into the Papers? Party Campaign Messages and the Media
British Journal of Political Science, 2017Co-Authors: Thomas M Meyer, Martin Haselmayer, Markus WagnerAbstract:Parties and politicians want their messages to generate media coverage and thereby reach voters. This article examines how attributes related to content and sender affect whether Party messages are likely to get media attention. Based on content analyses of 1,613 Party Press releases and 6,512 media reports in a parliamentary, multiParty context, we suggest that Party messages are more likely to make it into the news if they address concerns that are already important to the media or other parties. Discussing these issues may particularly help opposition parties and lower-profile politicians get media attention. These results confirm the importance of agenda setting and gatekeeping, shed light on the potential success of Party strategies, and have implications for political fairness and representation.
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partisan bias in message selection media gatekeeping of Party Press releases
Political Communication, 2017Co-Authors: Martin Haselmayer, Markus Wagner, Thomas M MeyerAbstract:Parties try to shape media coverage in ways that are favorable to them, but what determines whether media outlets pick up and report on Party messages? Based on content analyses of 1,496 Party Press releases and 6,512 media reports from the 2013 Austrian parliamentary election campaign, we show that media coverage of individual Party messages is influenced not just by news factors, but also by partisan bias. The media are therefore more likely to report on messages from parties their readers favor. Importantly, this effect is greater rather than weaker when these messages have high news value. These findings have important implications for understanding the media’s role in elections and representative democracies in general.
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Are Perceptions of Candidate Traits Shaped by the Media? The Effects of Three Types of Media Bias:
The International Journal of Press Politics, 2016Co-Authors: Jakob-moritz Eberl, Markus Wagner, Hajo G. BoomgaardenAbstract:Media coverage can influence how citizens think about their political leaders. This study explores how three types of media bias (visibility bias, tonality bias, and agenda bias) affect voter assessments of politicians’ traits. Bias effects should be stronger for political traits (such as competence) than for nonpolitical traits (such as likability). Biases may also interact in their effects: Specifically, visibility bias should moderate the impact of tonality bias. Combining media, Party, and survey data through manual content analysis of newspaper coverage (N = 2,680) and Party Press releases (N = 1,794), as well as a three-wave voter survey (n = 927) during the 2013 Austrian election campaign, we find substantial effects of tonality bias and agenda bias on political trait perceptions. The effects are less clear for nonpolitical trait perceptions. Although visibility bias has no direct impact, there is evidence that it moderates effects of tonality bias on candidate perceptions.
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Party Advertising in Newspapers
Journalism Studies, 2016Co-Authors: Jakob-moritz Eberl, Markus Wagner, Hajo G. BoomgaardenAbstract:Journalists increasingly fear that their work may be influenced by advertisers’ interests. While studies have found that commercial advertisers exert Pressure on news producers, equivalent research on political advertising is scarce. Using a rigorous methodological approach, we investigate whether Party advertising led to three different forms of media bias in newspaper coverage of the Austrian general election in 2013. We combine data on Party newspaper advertising (N≈1300), Party Press releases (N≈1900) and coverage in seven newspapers (N≈4200). There are no statistically significant effects of Party advertising on media bias, though there is indicative evidence of differences between media genres. Our findings advance the study of advertiser Pressure in the field of political journalism and political communication and clarify a heated public debate.
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One Bias Fits All? Three Types of Media Bias and Their Effects on Party Preferences
Communication Research, 2015Co-Authors: Jakob-moritz Eberl, Hajo G. Boomgaarden, Markus WagnerAbstract:Bias in political news coverage may have a profound influence on voter opinions and preferences. However, the concept of media bias actually encompasses different sub-types: Visibility bias is the salience of political actors, tonality bias the evaluation of these actors, and agenda bias the extent to which parties address preferred issues in media coverage. The present study is the first to explore how each type of bias influences Party preferences. Using data from the Austrian parliamentary election campaign of 2013, we combine an online panel survey (n = 1,285) with measures of media bias from content analyses of Party Press releases (n = 1,922) and media coverage in eight newspapers (n = 6,970). We find substantial effects on Party preferences for tonality bias and agenda bias, while visibility bias has no clear impact. Voters who are less politically sophisticated and lack a Party identification are more susceptible to bias, and media bias can also reinforce existing partisan identities.
Tsankuo Chang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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legitimizing ruptures of development trajectories Party Press discourse on rural society in transitional china 1997 2006
The International Journal of Press Politics, 2012Co-Authors: Yunya Song, Tsankuo ChangAbstract:Although the Communist Party of China has based its economic claims to legitimacy on its ability to raise individual living standards, the state’s earlier approach to encouraging some people to get rich first was rendered problematic after continual ruptures in the rural economy. Through both quantitative and qualitative analyses, this study seeks to unravel the interplay between the state and media in China’s march toward modernization by examining coverage of rural development in People’s Daily (PD). From 1997 to 2006, China’s central Party organ reported an enormous increase in the central officials’ efforts to boost the rural income, but highlighted in a hierarchical way their responsiveness according to the logics of period, region, and the task. In its assessment of rural anomalies, the responsibility was devolved to local bureaucracies, hence shifting the blame away from the central authority. A discourse analysis showed the PD stuck to a contour of economic developmentalism that upheld information...
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Legitimizing Ruptures of Development Trajectories Party Press Discourse on Rural Society in Transitional China, 1997–2006
The International Journal of Press Politics, 2012Co-Authors: Yunya Song, Tsankuo ChangAbstract:Although the Communist Party of China has based its economic claims to legitimacy on its ability to raise individual living standards, the state’s earlier approach to encouraging some people to get rich first was rendered problematic after continual ruptures in the rural economy. Through both quantitative and qualitative analyses, this study seeks to unravel the interplay between the state and media in China’s march toward modernization by examining coverage of rural development in People’s Daily (PD). From 1997 to 2006, China’s central Party organ reported an enormous increase in the central officials’ efforts to boost the rural income, but highlighted in a hierarchical way their responsiveness according to the logics of period, region, and the task. In its assessment of rural anomalies, the responsibility was devolved to local bureaucracies, hence shifting the blame away from the central authority. A discourse analysis showed the PD stuck to a contour of economic developmentalism that upheld information...
Yunya Song - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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legitimizing ruptures of development trajectories Party Press discourse on rural society in transitional china 1997 2006
The International Journal of Press Politics, 2012Co-Authors: Yunya Song, Tsankuo ChangAbstract:Although the Communist Party of China has based its economic claims to legitimacy on its ability to raise individual living standards, the state’s earlier approach to encouraging some people to get rich first was rendered problematic after continual ruptures in the rural economy. Through both quantitative and qualitative analyses, this study seeks to unravel the interplay between the state and media in China’s march toward modernization by examining coverage of rural development in People’s Daily (PD). From 1997 to 2006, China’s central Party organ reported an enormous increase in the central officials’ efforts to boost the rural income, but highlighted in a hierarchical way their responsiveness according to the logics of period, region, and the task. In its assessment of rural anomalies, the responsibility was devolved to local bureaucracies, hence shifting the blame away from the central authority. A discourse analysis showed the PD stuck to a contour of economic developmentalism that upheld information...
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Legitimizing Ruptures of Development Trajectories Party Press Discourse on Rural Society in Transitional China, 1997–2006
The International Journal of Press Politics, 2012Co-Authors: Yunya Song, Tsankuo ChangAbstract:Although the Communist Party of China has based its economic claims to legitimacy on its ability to raise individual living standards, the state’s earlier approach to encouraging some people to get rich first was rendered problematic after continual ruptures in the rural economy. Through both quantitative and qualitative analyses, this study seeks to unravel the interplay between the state and media in China’s march toward modernization by examining coverage of rural development in People’s Daily (PD). From 1997 to 2006, China’s central Party organ reported an enormous increase in the central officials’ efforts to boost the rural income, but highlighted in a hierarchical way their responsiveness according to the logics of period, region, and the task. In its assessment of rural anomalies, the responsibility was devolved to local bureaucracies, hence shifting the blame away from the central authority. A discourse analysis showed the PD stuck to a contour of economic developmentalism that upheld information...
Donald E. Brown - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Articles on Mass Communications in American Magazines: A Selected Annotated Bibliography July, August and September 1952
Journalism Bulletin, 2020Co-Authors: Charles E. Higbie, Granville Price, Armistead S. Pride, Donald E. BrownAbstract:Presidential political campaigning inevitably made itself felt in the literature of journalism during the third quarter both in the field of pure technique and in the traditional controversy over the balance of newspaper support given to the major parties.The impact of national television coverage of the political conventions inspired many estimates of the effect of this innovation on both the public and on the political parties themselves, the diversity of theories being the outstanding noticeable result. In addition the pure mechanics of television coverage at Press conferences and other small gatherings produced a clash with representatives of older news media. This fight gives every evidence of becoming a long-standing problem.As the campaign moved into the final major stage Democratic candidate Stevenson opened an old debate by asserting that the United States “has a one-Party Press in a two-Party country.” The inevitable rejoinders followed with the September Editor & Publisher poll indicating that ...
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Articles on Mass Communications in American Magazines
Journalism Quarterly, 2020Co-Authors: Charles E. Higbie, Armistead S. Pride, Dean C. Baker, Charles T. Duncan, Donald E. BrownAbstract:The release of Associated Press correspondent William Oatis from a Czech prison was the most spectacular journalistic event of April, May and June 1953. The settlement of this two-year-old newspaper issue between the western world and the Communist bloc of nations coincided with the so-called “Peace Offensive” in general events of the world. The New Orleans Times-Picayune unit advertising rate case, another cause celebre of the journalistic world, also was settled during the quarter. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the newspaper but without clearly indicating whether the general practice of unit rate setting would stand in the eyes of the judges for other Press units. The shelving of all major efforts to investigate the “one-Party Press” charges of the 1952 election was announced by several professional bodies, mostly on the grounds that no adequate criteria existed for judging the performance of newspapers in the campaign. Fast superseding the “one-Party” controversy in the area of newspapers and politics was the James Wechsler-Joseph McCarthy clash. At the end of the period it was under review by a committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors to determine whether Press freedom was involved in the senator's official grilling of the New York Post editor in a Senate sub-committee.
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Articles on Mass Communications in American Magazines: A Selected Annotated Bibliography October, November and December 1952
Journalism Bulletin, 2020Co-Authors: Charles E. Higbie, Granville Price, Armistead S. Pride, Donald E. BrownAbstract:The literature concerned with communications in American magazines during the last quarter of 1952 was overwhelmingly dominated by the subject of the relationship of radio and the Press to the presidential campaign. While the election itself was resolved definitely in favor of Eisenhower, it became more and more evident that Press institutions themselves in the United States may soon face a virtual decision at the bar of public opinion in regard to their ideal role in national life. Marking the main skirmish line for the three months in question was the phrase “one-Party Press” which bounded from a political speech by defeated-candidate Stevenson in early September into almost every written or spoken discussion of the Press since that time. Means of disproving or proving this characterization of U. S. newspapers has been the main topic of discussion at many conventions and conferences of such diversified groups as publishers, editors, union leaders, educators, congressmen, women's clubs and politicians as evidenced by following bibliography entries. Also numerous have been outright attempts at proof and disclaimer by various speakers and writers. Also of note during the quarter were the number of articles by pollsters defining their exact position in regard to pre-election opinion figures. Most managed to be both safe and sorry, since the growing corps of polling critics contributed a great number of articles following the election pointing out ignored evidence on Eisenhower's strength with great statistical accuracy.
Tina Askanius - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Mainstreaming the alternative: Changing Media Strategies of Protest Movements
2020Co-Authors: Nils Gustafsson, Tina AskaniusAbstract:Combining a theoretical discussion of the inherent paradoxes in the celebration of new media technology as a source of democratisation and empowerment of civic cultures with an empirical focus aimed at the changing communicative manifests of mediated political protest, this paper analyses two cases of media strategies in protest movements: 1) A series of civil disobedience actions and mobilisations of mass demonstrations before and after the eviction and destruction of the Youth House in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2007-8. 2) The European Social Forum in Malmo, Sweden, September 2008. The paper argues that contemporary protest movements are facing a convergence of what has traditionally been coined as mainstream and alternative media. Traditionally, the broad term ‘alternative media’ has been employed to embrace a wide range of oppositional media channels that can be considered to carry on the tradition of the early radical and Party Press: micro media operating at grass root level, discontinuous, non-professional, persecuted or illegal. Today, heavily commercialised media and web-based social communities such as Facebook, YouTube and MySpace constitute a common part of the repertoire of communication channels of alternative protest movements. Are these new media channels a necessary mean in order to reach beyond the circles of the likeminded? Or, do the use of these media point towards a mainstreaming process of protest-cultures of resistance to the establishment eroding their very raison d’etre? (Less)
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mainstreaming the alternative the changing media practices of protest movements
Interface: a journal for and about social movements, 2010Co-Authors: Tina Askanius, Nils GustafssonAbstract:The article argues that contemporary protest movements are facing a convergence of what has traditionally been coined as mainstream and alternative media. Traditionally, the broad term ‘alternative media’ has been employed to embrace a wide range of oppositional media channels that can be considered to carry on the tradition of the early radical and Party Press: micro-media operating at the grassroots level, discontinuous, non-professional, persecuted or illegal. Today, heavily commercialised media and online communities such as Facebook, YouTube and MySpace constitute a common part of the repertoire of communication channels for activists engaged in alterative politics and protest movements. Are these new media channels a necessary means in order to reach beyond the circles of the likeminded? Or, do the use of these media point towards a mainstreaming process of political cultures of resistance to the establishment, eroding their very raison d’etre? Combining a theoretical discussion of the inherent paradoxes in the celebration of new media technology as a source of democratisation and empowerment of civic cultures with an empirical focus aimed at exploring the changing repertoire of communicative tools used by social movement actors, this paper analyses two cases of online media practices in contemporary Scandinavian protest movements: 1) A series of civil disobedience actions and mobilisations of mass demonstrations before and after the eviction and destruction of the Youth House (Ungdomshuset) in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2007-2008; 2) The popular demonstrations in connection with the European Social Forum in Malmo, Sweden in September 2008. (Less)