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Acknowledgements | |
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Introduction | |
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Representing Politics | |
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Political Bias | |
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Why does bias matter? | |
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Defining bias | |
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Types of bias | |
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The Bad News studies | |
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Manufacturing Consent | |
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Critiques of bias research | |
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Constructing reality? | |
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Conclusion | |
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Telling Tales: The Reporting of Politics | |
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Frames versus biases | |
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Producing news | |
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Genres and political coverage | |
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Telling political stories | |
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We the people | |
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Explaining political stories | |
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Conclusion | |
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It's Just for Fun: Politics and Entertainment | |
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Political satire: politics as deluded and corrupt | |
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Politics as conspiracy | |
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Entertainment as propaganda | |
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The politics of identity: from soap opera to sport | |
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Conclusion | |
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Media Effects | |
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Seeing is believing? | |
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Under the influence? | |
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Press and voting behaviour | |
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Television and voting behaviour | |
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Influence beyond the ballot box | |
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Elite effects | |
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Media consumption in context | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Political Economy of Mass Media | |
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State Control and State Propaganda | |
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Systems of control | |
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Censorship | |
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Secrecy | |
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Propaganda | |
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Regulation | |
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Comparing media systems | |
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Conclusion | |
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Conglomerate Control: Media Moguls and Media Power | |
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Media empires | |
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Ownership and control | |
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The power of Rupert Murdoch | |
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Readers and viewers | |
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Advertisers | |
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Reconsidering media power | |
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Conclusion | |
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Watchdogs or Lapdogs? The Politics of Journalism | |
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The power of the spin doctor? | |
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The rise of churnalism | |
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Investigative journalism and the 'dumbing down' of news | |
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Models of journalism | |
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Conclusion | |
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Dream Worlds: Globalization and the Webs of Power | |
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Global players | |
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A history of the future | |
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Globalization or internationalization? | |
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Conglomerates, governments and identities | |
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Conclusion | |
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Mass Media and Democracy | |
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Transforming Political Communication? The Rise of Political Marketing and Celebrity Politics | |
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Packaging politics | |
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Packaging techniques | |
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Arguing about marketing | |
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The rise of the celebrity politician | |
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The critique of celebrity politics | |
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In defence of celebrity politics | |
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Judging by appearance | |
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Politics as media performance | |
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Conclusion | |
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New Media, New Politics? | |
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Transforming politics? A five-step programme | |
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E-democracy: practice and promises | |
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The argument for e-democracy | |
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The argument against e-democracy | |
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New media and politics | |
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Conclusion | |
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Power and Mass Media | |
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Discursive power | |
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Access power | |
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Resource power | |
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Theories of media power | |
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Conclusion | |
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A Free Press: Democracy and Mass Media | |
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Liberal democracy and the free press | |
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The value of free speech | |
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The limits to free speech | |
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Free press/free market? | |
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Democratic regulation? | |
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Conclusion | |
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Conclusion | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |