JMP EXAM Flashcards
democracy describes 5 characteristics of elections
- competitive
- free
- fair
- respect for basic civil liberties
- cabinet has effective power to govern
4 concepts relevant to characterizing democracy
- RCE - reasonably competitive elections, devoid of massive fraud,
- BCL - basic civil liberties: freedom of speech, assembly, association
- EP - elected governments have effective power to govern
- AF - additional political, economical, social features associated with democracy
4 processes of liberal democracy
- all citizens have opportunities to participate in politics
- to voice their opinions
- influence political decision-making
- ensure that citizens and their interests are represented
political news need to be 3
- factual
- substantial
- diverse
platforms exert influence on the conditions of journalism 3 levels
- news created based on journalism quality
- promoting and financing festivals, meetings or anything that produces discourse around journalism
- identifying reliability, measuring impact and determining quality
political information environment
supply and demand of political news
supply = quantity and quality of news produced
demand = amount and quality of information consumed
political news need to be 3
- factual
- substantial - relevance
- diverse
platforms exert their influence over journalism on 3 levels
- creation of news initiatives based on journalism quality
- promoting and financing festivals, meetings - anything that produces discourse around journalism
- identifying reliability, measuring impact, determining quality
platformization of news 2
- legitimization of platforms in journalism
- field actor interactives
6 concerns of decline of political news
- decline of supply of political information
- decline of quality of news
- increasing media concentration and decline of diversity
- increased fragmentation and polarization
- increased relativism
- increased inequality in political knowledge
incidental exposure
soft news
political parallelism
exposed to news and political info by accident
topic cluster of a story
media outlets have political connections
sciences that contribute to a multi-disciplinary nature
- political science
- sociology
- communication research/media studies
- cognitive & social psychology
- the old rhetorics
- linguistics and semiotics
normative cypher of the definition of political communication
- exchange of symbolic resources for the power contest
- environment of freedom
- dialectics among players
political communication
exchange and the confrontation of contents of public/political interest, produced by political players, the media and citizens
diaological model
media-centered model
meida system
political system
citizens
a,b,c - political communication
in the center = mediatized pol com
6 actors and forms of political communicaiton
- political system –> media system
- laws, regulations
- media/news management - political system –> citizen/voter
-institutional communication
- personal contact
- campaigns - citizen/voter –> political system
- ballot
- public debate
- electoral polls - media system –> political system
- information (journalism)
- watchdog
- partisan info
- mediatization - media system –> citizen/voter
- news/infotainment
- partisan info
- political commercial - citizen/voter –> media system
- participation to media programs
- letters to media players
5 models of interaction media-politics
- adversarial (watchdog)
- parallelism
- exchange (mutually dependent) (politicians need media, media needs politicians)
- competition (media keeps own political program)
- market (commercial logic), (commercial leading the media)
3 phases of political communication
- changes within values and social systems
- technological development (from tv to internet)
- crisis of the ideologies and of the political systems
- globalization of the economy and culture
4 ages of political communication
- parties dominate the political scene and drive democratic insitutions
- tv dominated media (60s-80s)
- professionalization of the relation with public opinion
- digital media platforms, information overload, mediatized political communication
12 characteristics of the 4th age
- weaker state institutions
- large, complex policy areas and risks
- low trust in political institutions, experts, and elite
- fragmented parties
- cultural identity and nationalism
- unstable new parties, social movements
- fall of established news organizations
- getting news from social media not legacy news producers
- information overload
- volatile electorates
- audiences fragmented and polarized
- divide between public, symbolic politics and private, lobbied politics
why is media logic fruitful
- addresses how transforming the media landscape impacts politics
logic
behavior that is consistent and reasonable within the rules, resources, and norms of the institutional context
= norms, strategies, mechanisms, and economies that drive this dynamic and how they translate into operational features in everyday practices of media
media logic
understand the role of media as recognizing social reality
form through which events and ideas are interpreted and acted upon