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The Mediation of Power The Mediation of Power investigates how those in positions of power use and are influenced by media in their everyday activities. Each chapter examines this theme through an exploration of some of the key topic areas and debates in the field. The topics covered are: (cid:127) theories of media and power (cid:127) media policy and the economics of information (cid:127) news production and journalistic practice (cid:127) public relations and media management (cid:127) culture and power (cid:127) political communication and mediated politics (cid:127) new and alternative media (cid:127) interest group communication (cid:127) media audiences and effects. In addition, the book presents a series of critical dialogues with the traditional paradigms in the field. These are rethought, supplemented or discarded alto- gether. The discussions are illustrated with original research material from a range of communication environments and case study examples. These docu- ment stock market crashes, e-democracy, the subcultures of the London Stock Exchange and Westminster Parliament, the strategies of corporate and political spin doctors, mass media influences on politicians and the Make Poverty History campaign. The debates are enlivened by first-hand accounts taken from over 200 high- profile interviews with politicians, journalists, public officials, spin doctors, campaigners and captains of industry. Tim Bell, David Blunkett, Iain Duncan Smith, Simon Heffer, David Hill, Simon Hughes, Trevor Kavanagh, Neil Kinnock, Peter Riddell, Polly Toynbee, Michael White and Ann Widdecombe are some of those cited. Aeron Davis is a Senior Lecturer in Political Communication in the Departm ent of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College, London. He has published in the areas of political communication, media sociology, promotional culture and financial markets, and is the author of Public Relations Democracy (2002). Communication and Society Series Editor: James Curran Glasnost, Perestroika and the Getting the Message Soviet Media News, truth and power Brian McNair The Glasgow Media Group Pluralism, Politics and the Advertising, the Uneasy Marketplace Persuasion The regulation of German Its dubious impact on American broadcasting society Vincent Porter and Suzanne Hasselbach Michael Schudson Potboilers Nation, Culture, Text Methods, concepts and case studies in Australian cultural and media studies popular fiction Edited by Graeme Turner Jerry Palmer Television Producers Communication and Citizenship Jeremy Tunstall Journalism and the public sphere Edited by Peter Dahlgren and Colin What News? Sparks The market, politics and the local press Seeing and Believing Bob Franklin and David Murphy The influence of television Greg Philo In Garageland Rock, youth and modernity Critical Communication Studies Johan Fornäs, Ulf Lindberg and Ove Communication, history and theory in Sernhede America Hanno Hardt The Crisis of Public Media Moguls Communication Jeremy Tunstall and Michael Palmer Jay G. Blumler and Michael Gurevitch Fields in Vision Glasgow Media Group Reader, Television sport and cultural Volume 1 transformation News content, language and visuals Garry Whannel Edited by John Eldridge Glasgow Media Group Reader, De-Westernizing Media Studies Volume 2 Edited by James Curran and Myung-Jin Industry, economy, war and politics Park Edited by Greg Philo British Cinema in the Fifties The Global Jukebox Christine Geraghty The international music industry Robert Burnett Ill Effects The media violence debate, Second Inside Prime Time edition Todd Gitlin Edited by Martin Barker and Julian Petley Media and Power Talk on Television James Curran Audience participation and public debate Journalism after September 11 Sonia Livingstone and Peter Lunt Edited by Barbie Zelizer and Stuart Allan Media Effects and Beyond News and Journalism in the UK Culture, socialization and lifestyles Fourth edition Edited by Karl Erik Rosengren Brian McNair We Keep America on Top of the An Introduction to Political World Communication Television journalism and the public Third edition sphere Brian McNair Daniel C. Hallin Remaking Media A Journalism Reader The struggle to democratize public Edited by Michael Bromley and Tom communication O’Malley Robert A. Hackett and William K. Carroll Tabloid Television Media on the Move Popular journalism and the ‘other Global flow and contra-flow news’ Daya Kishan Thussu John Langer An Introduction to Political International Radio Journalism Communication History, theory and practice Fourth edition Tim Crook Brian McNair Media, Ritual and Identity The Mediation of Power Edited by Tamar Liebes and James A critical introduction Curran Aeron Davis The Mediation of Power A critical introduction Aeron Davis First published 2007 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 2007 Aeron Davis All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Davis, Aeron. The mediation of power: a critical introduction/Aeron Davis. p. cm. – (Communication and society) Includes bibliographical references and index. [etc.] 1. Mass media–Political aspects. 2. Mass media–Political aspects–Great Britain. 3. Communication in politics. 4. Communication in politics–Great Britain. 5. Communication–Political aspects. 6. Communication–Political aspects– Great Britain. 7. Press and politics. 8. Press and politics–Great Britain. I. Title. P95.8.D35 2007 302.23–dc22 2007001862 ISBN 0-203-94582-4 Master e-book ISBN ISBN10: 0–415–40490–8 (hbk) ISBN10: 0–415–40491–6 (pbk) ISBN10: 0–203–94582–4 (ebk) ISBN13: 978–0–415–40490–7 (hbk) ISBN13: 978–0–415–40491–4 (pbk) ISBN13: 978–0–203–94582–7 (ebk) For Annie Contents List of illustrations xi Preface and acknowledgements xiii 1 Introduction: critical engagements with mediated power 1 2 Media policy: communication and the economic inefficiencies of market liberalisation 17 3 Media production: discursive practices, news production and the mobilisation of bias in public discourse 36 4 Media management and public relations: public media, inter-elite conflict and power 55 5 Culture, discourse and power: the rediscovery of elite culture and power in media studies? 74 6 Mediated politics: the mediation of parliamentary politics 96 7 New and alternative media: the Internet and the parliamentary public sphere 113 8 Interest groups and mediated mobilisation: communication in the Make Poverty History campaign (by Nick Sireau and Aeron Davis) 131 9 Media audiences and effects: the question of the rational audience in the London Stock Exchange 151
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