This book proposes a framework for comparative analysis of the relation between the media and the political system Building on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West European and North American democracies, Hallin and Mancini identify the principal dimensions of variation in media systems and the political variables that have shaped their evolution They go on to identify three major models of media system development, the Polarized Pluralist, Democratic Corporatist, and Liberal models; to explain why the media have played a different role in politics in each of these systems; and to explore the force of change that are currently transforming them It provides a key theoretical statement about the relation between media and political systems, a key statement about the methodology of comparative analysis in political communication, and a clear overview of the variety of media institutions that have developed in the West, understood within their political and historical context

Comparing Media Systems: three models of media and politics

Social Network Analysis

Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy

Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy

Despite a large array of work broadly concerned with the cultures of news production, studies rarely attempt to tackle journalism culture and its dimensional structure at the conceptual level The purpose of this paper is, therefore, to propose a theoretical foundation on the basis of which systematic and comparative research of journalism cultures is feasible and meaningful By using a deductive and etic approach, the concept of journalism culture is deconstructed in terms of its constituents and principal dimensions Based on a review of the relevant literature, the article proposes a conceptualization of journalism culture that consists of 3 essential constituents (institutional roles, epistemologies, and ethical ideologies), further divided into 7 principal dimensions: interventionism, power distance, market orientation, objectivism, empiricism, relativism, and idealism

Deconstructing Journalism Culture: Toward a Universal Theory

Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic models are increasingly being used in communication research. Yet, questions regarding reliability and validity of the approach have received little attentio...

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Applying LDA Topic Modeling in Communication Research: Toward a Valid and Reliable Methodology

Rethinking Political Communication in a Time of Disrupted Public Spheres

1. Introduction Barbara Pfetsch and Frank Esser Part I. Theories and Methods: 2. Americanization, globalization, and secularization: understanding the convergence of media systems and political communication Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini 3. Transnational trends in political communication: conventional views and new realities David L. Swanson 4. Comparing mass communication systems: media formats, media contents, and media processes Hans J. Kleinsteuber 5. Designs and methods of comparative political communication research Werner Wirth and Steffen Kolb Part II. Cases: 6. Global political communication: good governance, human development and mass communication Pippa Norris 7. Local political communication: media and local publics in the age of globalization Sabine Lang 8. Strategic political communication: mobilizing public opinion in 'audience democracies' Hanspeter Kriesi 9. Political campaign communication: conditional convergence of modern media elections Christina Holtz-Bacha 10. Political communication and electronic democracy: American exceptionalism or global trend? Thomas Zittel 11. Political news journalists: partisanship, professionalism, and political roles in five countries Wolfgang Donsbach and Thomas Patterson 12. Political communication messages: pictures of our world on international television news Patrick Rossler 13. Political communication effects: the impact of mass media and interpersonal conversations on voting Rudiger Schmitt-Beck Part III. Perspectives and Challenges: 14. State of the art in comparative political communication research: poised for maturity? Michael Gurevitch and Jay G. Blumler 15. From political culture to political communications culture: a theoretical approach to comparative analysis Barbara Pfetsch 16. Problems of comparative political communication research: culture as a key variable Robert L. Stevenson 17. Meeting the challenges of global communication and political integration: the significance of comparative research in a changing world Frank Esser and Barbara Pfetsch.

Barbara Pfetsch

Papers

Applying LDA Topic Modeling in Communication Research: Toward a Valid and Reliable Methodology

Rethinking Political Communication in a Time of Disrupted Public Spheres

Comparing political communication : theories, cases, and challenges

Politik in der Mediendemokratie

Comparing Political Communication: THEORIES AND METHODS