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 topics and debates in the field, including:  theories of media and power media policy and the economics of information news production and journalistic practice public relations and media management culture and power political communication and mediated politics new and alternative media interest group communications media audiences and effects.  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.

The Mediation of Power: A Critical Introduction (Communication and Society)

Politics & Social Sciences

Davis, Aeron

Social Sciences

Routledge

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 topics and debates in the field, including: <ul>
<li>theories of media and power</li> <li>media policy and the economics of information</li> <li>news production and journalistic practice</li> <li>public relations and media management</li> <li>culture and power</li> <li>political communication and mediated politics</li> <li>new and alternative media</li> <li>interest group communications</li> <li>media audiences and effects.</li>
</ul> 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.

Political Communication and Social Theory presents an advanced and challenging text for students and scholars of political communication and mass media in democracies. It draws together work from across political communication, media sociology and political sociology, and includes a mix of theoretical debate and current examples from several democratic media systems. Its wide ranging discussions both introduce and contest the traditional scholarship on a number of contemporary topics and issues. These include: <ul>
<li>comparative political and media systems</li> <li>theories of democracy, representation and the public sphere</li> <li>political party communication, marketing and elections</li> <li>the production of news media and public policy</li> <li>media sociology and journalist-source relations</li> <li>celebrity politics, popular culture and political leadership</li> <li>new media and online democracy</li> <li>national-global politics and international political communication</li> <li>foreign policy-making, war and media</li> <li>the crisis of public communication in established democracies.</li> </ul> At the same time, Political Communication and Social Theory also offers a fascinating investigation of the causes of crisis in established political and media systems. In today’s democracies, trust in politicians, state institutions and mainstream media sources has dropped to new lows. The traditional business model that sustained journalism is failing and nations are struggling to respond to the existing global recession and impending environmental and resource crises. Drawing on interviews with over 100 experienced politicians, journalists and civil servants, Aeron Davis explores how the varied political actors and communicative processes, at the centre of UK democracy, may or may not be contributing to such crisis tendencies.

Political Communication and Social Theory (Communication and Society)

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Political communication and social theory (Communication and Society)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Aeron Davis is the first to offer a general overview of the rise and impact of professional public relations in Britain, stepping beyond the status quo of 'spin doctors' and elections by also exploring the public relations activities of the corporate sector, the City, pressure groups, and the trade union movement. Davis explores the question: to what extent are journalists and decision-makers being affected and who stands to benefit most in the new era of public relations democracy?

Public Relations Democracy: Politics, Public Relations and the Mass Media in Britain

Business & Money

Manchester University Press

Aeron Davis is the first to offer a general overview of the rise and impact of professional public relations in Britain, stepping beyond the status quo of 'spin doctors' and elections by also exploring the public relations activities of the corporate sector, the City, pressure groups, and the trade union movement. Davis explores the question: to what extent are journalists and decision-makers being affected and who stands to benefit most in the new era of public relations democracy?

Marketing & Sales

Promotional Cultures: The Rise and Spread of Advertising, Public Relations, Marketing and Branding

In the twenty-first century, promotion is everywhere andeverything has become promotable: everyday goods and organizations,people and ideas, cultures and futures. This engaging book looks atthe rise of advertising, public relations, branding, marketing andlobbying, and explores where our promotional times have takenus.Promotional Cultures documents how the professions andpractices of promotion have interacted with and reshaped so much inour world, from commodities, celebrities and popular culture topolitics, markets and civil society. It offers a mix of historicalaccounts, social theory and documented case studies, includinghaute couture fashion, Apple Inc., Hollywood film, Jennifer Lopez,the Occupy movement, Barack Obama’s election campaigns, newsproduction and the 2008 financial crisis. Together, these show howpromotional culture may be recorded, understood andinterpreted.Promotional Cultures will appeal to students and scholarsof media and culture, sociology, politics, anthropology, social andindustrial history.

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Promotional Cultures documents how the professions and practices of promotion have interacted with and reshaped so much in our world. This engaging book looks at the rise of advertising, public relations, branding, marketing and lobbying, and explores where our promotional times have taken us.

The Mediation of Power: A Critical Introduction

Political Communication and Social Theory

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The Mediation of Power: A Critical Introduction (Communication and Society)

The Mediation of Power: A Critical Introduction (Communication and Society)

Political Communication and Social Theory (Communication and Society)

Political communication and social theory (Communication and Society)

Public Relations Democracy: Politics, Public Relations and the Mass Media in Britain

Public Relations Democracy: Politics, Public Relations and the Mass Media in Britain

Promotional Cultures: The Rise and Spread of Advertising, Public Relations, Marketing and Branding

Promotional Cultures: The Rise and Spread of Advertising, Public Relations, Marketing and Branding

The Mediation of Power: A Critical Introduction

Political Communication and Social Theory