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Surprising News: How the Media Affect - and Do Not Affect - Politics

Kenneth Newton

Boulder; London: Rienner (2019), x, 277 pp.

"In chapter 2, the book lays down its foundations with a review of a large body of experimental psychology research on how and why individuals can preserve their beliefs, sometimes in the face of all evidence, logic, and argument to the contrary. The second part of the chapter shows that millions of ... people do the same in the real world outside the laboratories, whatever the media say [...] Chapter 3 considers political partisanship and party identification - that is, strong attachments to political ideas, values, and organizations. Experiments show that people are likely to engage in belief preservation where partisan opinions are concerned, and the same seems to be true of partisans in the outside world [...] Chapter 4 broadens the scope of inquiry to examine how non-partisanship and non-party political beliefs and values can influence the ways the majoritiy of individuals receive and process news reports and draw conclusions from them [...] The first eight chapters deal mainly with the micro, demand side of the equation - but there is also the macro, supply side of news media systems. Supply and demand are often analyzed separately, although understanding media effects requires examining the interaction between them [...] Chapter 9 compares commercial and public service broadcasting, showing that they have different effects on political knowledge, trust, participation, and democratic support. Chapter 10 turns to the classic theory of news media pluralism as a cornerstone of modern democracy [...] The research strategy of this book involves comparing and contrasting a large number of studies of media effects on political attitudes and behavior in order to compare and contrast the conclusions they reach. The book does not merely traingulate in order to reach reliabe conclusions, but it polyangulates, using many different studies written by sociologists, political scientists, psychologists, and economists who employ a variety of methods to investigate many possible media effects on politics. American and British research is used in the main, but single-country research on Russia, the Netherlands, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and Belgium is included, as are comparative studies of European Union member states." (Chapter 1, page 2-5) more

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Audience Responses to Peace Journalism: Merging Results from a Four-Country Research Study

Annabel McGoldrick, Jake Lynch

Journalism Studies, volume 17, issue 5 (2016), pp. 628-646

"This article shows how results were merged from a study conducted in four countries-Australia, the Philippines, South Africa and Mexico-in which differently versioned television news stories about conflict were played to audiences, and their responses gathered through a mix of methods, to yield bot ... more

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Inhabiting Two Worlds: The Role of News in the Lives of Jewish and Arab Children and Youth in Israel

Dafna Lemish, Rotem Pick-Alony

International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 2 (2014), pp. 128-151

"This study investigated the role of the news media in the lives of Jewish and Arab children in Israel. A survey of 1657 children (ages 8–18), including analysis of open-ended questions, reveals that Jewish and Arab children in Israel live in two different worlds of news. They are exposed to diffe ... more

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Four Facets of Critical News Literacy in a Non-Democratic Regime: How Young Russians Navigate Their News

Florian Toepfl

European Journal of Communication, volume 29, issue 1 (2014), pp. 68-82

"Fuelled by the Arab Spring, the question of how the rise of internet-mediated communication affects authoritarian regimes has received unprecedented attention within the discipline of communications. However, in this debate, scholars have not yet turned to the concept of literacy and addressed the ... more

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Tabloid TV in Zambia: A Reception Study of Lusaka Viewers of Muvi TV News

Herman Wasserman, Loisa Mbatha

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 3 (2012), pp. 277-293

"The tabloid news genre has been chastized for depoliticizing its public by causing cynicism about the democratic process and lowering the standards of rational public discourse. Counter-arguments point to the alternative public sphere offered by popular media such as ‘tabloid TV’ which is the f ... more

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Responses to Peace Journalism

Jake Lynch, Annabel McGoldrick

Journalism, volume 14, issue 8 (2012), pp. 1041-1058

"This article presents and discusses the results of an experiment, which gathered audience responses to television news coded as war journalism and peace journalism respectively, in two countries, Australia and the Philippines. From the peace journalism model, evaluative criteria were first derived ... more

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Skalenhandbuch Kommunikationswissenschaft

Patrick Rössler

Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2011), xvi, 455 pp.

"Empirische Forschung auf Basis standardisierter Verfahren greift häufig auf einen Satz von Konstrukten zurück, die immer wieder benötigt werden. Für deren Operationalisierung werden Skalen entwickelt, die regelmäßig eingesetzt und validiert werden. Dieses erste Skalenhandbuch für die deutsch ... more

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Mass Media and Political Communication in New Democracies

Katrin Voltmer (ed.)

London: Routledge (2006), 262 pp.

Media, Audiences, Effects: An Introduction to the Study of Media Content and Audience Analysis
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Paul J. Traudt

Boston et al.: Pearson (2005), xvi, 208 pp.

"Media, Audiences, Effects teaches students how to evaluate media effects research and better understand the role media play in our everyday lives. This text introduces readers to more than 300 contemporary research studies focusing on twelve important topic areas, including television violence, gen ... more

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Lehrbuch der Medienpsychologie

Roland Mangold, Peter Vorderer, Gary Bente (eds.)

Göttingen: Hogrefe (2004), x, 830 pp.

"Das Lehrbuch bietet eine aktuelle und verständliche Einführung in die verschiedenen Bereiche der Medienpsychologie. Neben den Grundlagen einer Medienpsychologie werden einschlägige Forschungsmethoden vorgestellt. Die spezifischen Anwendungsfelder schließen sowohl Einsatzgebiete der "klassischen ... more

"Ein bisschen wählen dürfen...": Jugend - Politik - Fernsehen. Eine Untersuchung zur Rezeption von Fernsehinformation durch 12- bis 17-Jährige

Bernd Schorb, Helga Theunert (eds.)

München: kopaed (2000), 212 pp.

Erinnern von Radio-Nachrichten: Eine empirische Studie über die Selektionsleistungen der Hörer von Radio-Nachrichten

Andreas Kindel

München: Verlag Reinhard Fischer (1998), 274, xxviii pp.

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