Making Sense of Mediatized Politics

Jesper Strömbäck is Professor in Political Communication and Ludvig Nordström Professor and Chair in Journalism at Mid-Sweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden, where he is also research director at the research institute DEMICOM. His books include Handbook of Election News Coverage Around the World (2008) and Political Public Relations (2011). Frank Esser is Professor of International & Comparative Media Research at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He　is co-director of the National Research Centre on the Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century (NCCR Democracy). His research focuses on cross-national studies of news journalism and political communication. His books include Comparing Political Communication (2004), Handbook of Comparative Communication Research (2012), and Democracy in the Age of Globalization and Mediatization (2013).

• 1. Making Sense of the Mediatization of Politics 2. News Media Logic in a New Institutional Perspective 3. Mass Media Logic and the Mediatization of Politics: A Theoretical Framework 4. Mediatization and Political Leadership: Perspectives of the Finnish Newspapers and Party Leaders 5. Opposing the Government but Governing the Audience? Exploring the Differential Mediatization of Parliamentary Actors in Switzerland 6. The Mediatization of Political Accountability: Politics, the News Media Logic and Industrial Crises in the 1980s and 2000s 7. News Coverage of Politics and Conflict Levels: A Cross-National Study of Journalists’ and Politicians’ Perspections of Two Elements of Mediatization 8. Phases of Mediatization: Empirical Evidence from Austrian Election Campaigns Since 1970 9. Jumping the Shark: Mediatization of Canadian Party Leadership Contests, 1975-2012 10. Metacoverage and Mediatization in US Presidential Elections: A Theoretical Model and Qualitative Case Study 11. Mediatization, Legal Logic and the Coverage of Israeli Politicians on Trial 12. Media Logic and Political Logic Online and Offline: The Case of Climate Change Communication 13. Passive Accomplice or Active Disruptor: The Role of Audiences in the Mediatization of Politics