week 2

Question 1

porous politics

Answer 1

popular culture increasingly enters the political sphere and personal aspects of politicians become more prominent

Question 2

first dimension (Stromback)

Answer 2

extent to which the media constitute the most important source of information and channel of communication.

Question 3

second dimension (stromback)

Answer 3

the media’s independence from other social and political institutions

Question 4

third dimension (stromback)

Answer 4

degree to which media content is governed by media logic or political logic

Question 5

fourth dimension (stromback)

Answer 5

degree to which political actors are governed by media logic or political logic

Question 6

mediation

Answer 6

neutral act of transmitting messages through media

Question 7

mediatization

Answer 7

process-oriented concept, focused on increasing media influence

Question 8

media’s discretionary power

Answer 8

extent to which media play a formative role in shaping agenda and election campaigns, and forces that enable them to play such a role, or limit their performance of it

Question 9

media interventionism

Answer 9

degree to which content of political news is shaped by journalistic interventions

Question 11

connectivity

Answer 11

with whom the politicians appear

Question 12

celebrity politics

Answer 12

celebrity culture applied to politics

Question 13

mediagenicity

Answer 13

adapted style to each medium