College week 1/2/3 Flashcards
In chapter 1 the writer is talking about how the news media is “indexing”, what is the definition of indexing in this way?
They thought about a parliament, the person who controls the agenda determines whether we are going to vote about something. While setting the frame is, when it comes to a decision, who has which preferences, which make them vote either in favor of or against this.
It can happen that people have first media power and later political power.
It can lead that when on tv, the topic can be about what weird you are saying instead of your celebrity status once you get on television, like famke louise.
Does the fact that prominent opposition leaders (Wilders, Marijnissen, Farage, Biden during Trump) don’t get the same front opportunities as easily not obstruct democracy?
Less preference of coverage, because they place themselves outside the mainstream of politics, generally if you place yourself outside the mainstream, it is more difficult to get coverage also because you are seen as less powerful. Like Trump, not playing by the traditional rules, and in the end get enough coverage to get by, this also relates in a way to the propaganda model.
Wat is het tweede principe van wolfsfeld?:
- When authorities lose control over the political environment, they also lose control over the news
Which elements are part of the ‘political environment’?
Control over events
information and concensus
What are the three elements of media logic?
Professionalism, commercialism, technology
What are the three elements of political logic?
Polity, policy, politics
What is self-mediatization?
Politicians adapt to media logic by making their actions or views more newsworthy.
What are the negative consequences of mediatization according to Blumer?
- Lack of informed scrutiny (control)
- Little attention for systematic problems
- Stereotypical depiction of out-groups
What is media logic:
Norms and routines that shape how people act within an institution Divided in 3 aspects: - Professionalism - Commercialism - Media technology
Media companies as commercial entities –> make profit, be competitive
- Commercial logic: need to be competitive
- Market for attention, subscription, advertisements
- Dominant underlying rationale for many news routines
Wat is political logic:
The public face, tactics and strategies for winning political support and publicity of a political group, according to mediatization, is negotiated with the logic of the medium
- Polity
- Policy
- Politics
Poorly conceptualized in mediatization literature.
It is vote seeking, policy seeking
- Policy goal
- Electoral goal
Normative logic:
Idealized view of what should be for the well-being of a democratic society
- Imperative of problem solving
- Value orientated
- Elitist
- Supply-driven
Market logic
Maximization of self-interested goals (circulation, profit, votes, office)
- Imperative of newsworthiness
- Audience-oriented
- Populist
- Demand-driven
How to define them so they can be juxtaposed?
Media practices:
Media content mainly guided by political logic or media logic
Political practices:
Political actors, organizations and institution mainly guided by political logic or by media logic
Which politicians would you call populist?
top 3: Baudet, trump, wilders
What qualities or policies define a populist?
- the public vs the elite
- for the people, against the elite
- Charisma
- Racist
- Being against everything
