How media inform democracy
Subtitle: a comparative approach
By: edited by Toril Aalberg and James Curran
Series: Routledge new developments in communication and society
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780415889087
Subjects: Political aspects; Influence; Mass media; Democracy; Communication in politics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: How media inform democracy: central debates / Toril Aalberg and James Curran; title: Research design / Toril Aalberg, Zan Strabac and Tove Brekken; title: How media provides political information. Media systems and the political information environment: a cross-national comparison / Toril Aalberg, Peter van Aelst and James Curran; title: The political information environment during election campaigns / Peter van Aelst, Kjersti Thorbjornsrud and Toril Aalberg; title: News substance: the relative importance of soft and de-contextualized news / Tove Brekken, Kjersti Thorbjornsrud and Toril Aalberg; title: How media affects public knowledge and perceptions. News content, media use and current affairs knowledge / James Curran ... [et al.]; title: Media, political trust and political knowledge: a comparative perspective / Kees Aarts, Audun Fladmoe and Jesper Strombock; title: Does knowledge of hard news go with knowledge of soft news? a cross-national analysis of the structure of public affairs knowledge / Kyu S. Hahn ... [et al.]; title: Informed citizens, media use and public knowledge of parties policy positions / Anders Todal Jenssen, Toril Aalberg and Kees Aarts; title: The financial crises as a global news event. Cross-national media coverage and public knowledge of economic affairs / Jesper Strombock, Anders Todal Jenssen and Toril Aalberg; title: News consumption and public opposition to immigration across countries / Zan Strabac, Kjersti Thorbjornsrud and Anders Todal Jenssen; title: conclusion / Toril Aalberg and James Curran.