The Mediation of Power investigates how those in positions of power use and are influenced by media in their everyday activities. Each chapter examines this theme through an exploration of some of the key topics and debates in the field, including:theories of media and powermedia policy and the economics of informationnews production and journalistic practicepublic relations and media managementculture and powerpolitical communication and mediated politicsnew and alternative mediainterest group communicationsmedia audiences and effects.The debates are enlivened by first-hand accounts taken from over 200 high-profile interviews with politicians, journalists, public officials, spin doctors, campaigners and captains of industry. Tim Bell, David Blunkett, Iain Duncan Smith, Simon Heffer, David Hill, Simon Hughes, Trevor Kavanagh, Neil Kinnock, Peter Riddell, Polly Toynbee, Michael White and Ann Widdecombe are some of those cited.
Aeron Davis is a Senior Lecturer in Political Communication in the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College, London. He has published in the areas of political communication, media sociology, promotional culture and financial markets, and is the author of Public Relations Democracy (2002).
1. Introduction: Critical Engagements with Mediated Power 2. Media Policy: Communications and the Economic Inefficiencies of Market Liberalisation 3. Media Production: Discursive Practices, News Production and the Mobilisation of Bias in Public Discourse 4. Media Management and Public Relations: Public Media, Inter-Elite Conflict and Power 5. Culture, Discourse and Power: The Rediscovery of Elite Culture and Power in Media Studies? 6. Mediated Politics: The Mediation of Parliamentary Politics 7. New and Alternative Media: The Internet and the Parliamentary Public Sphere 8. Interest Groups and Mediated Mobilisation: Communications in the Make Poverty History Campaign (by Nick Sireau and Aeron Davis) 9. Media Audiences and Effects: The Question of the Rational Audience in the London Stock Exchange 10. Conclusions
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Marshall McLuhan, Bruce R. Powers, University of Toronto) McLuhan, Marshall (late Professor, St Michael's College, University of Toronto, late Professor, St Michael's College, Niagara University) Powers, Bruce R. (Associate Professor, Communications Studies, Associate Professor, Communications Studies
Ellen Mickiewicz, Emory University) Mickiewicz, Ellen (Alben W. Barkley Professor of Political Science, Alben W. Barkley Professor of Political Science
Kathryn C. Montgomery, Los Angeles) Montgomery, Kathryn C. (Assistant Professor, Department of Film and Television, Assistant Professor, Department of Film and Television, University of California
Katz Gross, Larry Gross, John Stuart Katz, Jay Ruby, University of Pennsylvania) Gross, Larry (Professor of Communications, Professor of Communications, Ontario) Katz, John Stuart (Professor of Communications, Professor of Communications, York University, Temple University) Ruby, Jay (Professor of Communications, Professor of Communications, Larry P. Gross
Eli Noam, Columbia University; Commissioner of Public Service) Noam, Eli (Director, Center for Telecommunications and Information Studies, Director, Center for Telecommunications and Information Studies
Eli Noam, New York) Noam, Eli (Director, Center for Telecommunications and Information Studies, Director, Center for Telecommunications and Information Studies, Columbia University; Commissioner of Public Service
Marshall McLuhan, Bruce R. Powers, University of Toronto) McLuhan, Marshall (late Professor, St Michael's College, University of Toronto, late Professor, St Michael's College, Niagara University) Powers, Bruce R. (Associate Professor, Communications Studies, Associate Professor, Communications Studies
Clifford G. Christians, John P. Ferré, P. Mark Fackler, Professor of Communications) Christians, Clifford G. (Professor of Communications, both at the University of Illinois) Ferre, John P. (Associate Professor of Communications, Associate Professor of Communications, University of Louisville) Fackler, P. Mark (Associate Professor of Communications, Associate Professor of Communications, Clifford Christians, John P. Ferre
Eli M. Noam, Eli M. Noam, Columbia University Business School) Noam, Eli M. (Professor and Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Professor and Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information