Davis, Aeron.

The mediation of power : a critical introduction / Aeron Davis. - London ; New York : Routledge, c2007. - xiv, 218 p. ; 24 cm. - Communication and society . - Communication and society (Routledge (Firm)) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : critical engagements with mediated power -- Media policy : communication and the economic inefficiencies of market liberalisation -- Media production : discursive practices, news production and the mobilisation of bias in public discourse -- Media management and public relations : public media, inter-elite conflict and power -- Culture, discourse and power : the rediscovery of elite culture and power in media studies? -- Mediated politics : the mediation of parliamentary politics -- New and alternative media : the Internet and the parliamentary public sphere -- Interest groups and mediated mobilisation : communication in the Make Poverty History campaign (by Nick Sireau and Aeron Davis) -- Media audiences and effects : the question of the rational audience in the London Stock Exchange.

9780415404907 (hbk.) 0415404908 (hbk.) 9780415404914 (pbk.) 0415404916 (pbk.) 9780203945827 (ebk.) 0203945824 (ebk.)


Mass media--Political aspects.
Mass media--Political aspects--Great Britain.
Communication in politics.
Communication in politics--Great Britain.
Communication--Political aspects.
Communication--Political aspects--Great Britain.
Press and politics.
Press and politics--Great Britain.

302.23 / DAV 2007