Media and Politics in Europe
Profs. Dan Hallin and Paolo Mancini
Part 1: Models of Journalism
- Week 1: Introduction
- Week 2: Comparative Frameworks
- James Curran, "Rethinking the Media as a Public Sphere," in Dahlgren and
Sparks (eds), Journalism and the Public Sphere in the New Media Age
- Jeffrey C. Alexander, "The Mass News Media in Systemic, Comparative and
Historical Perspective," in E. Katz and T. SzecscO(o,[dieresis]), eds, Mass
Media and Social Change
- Paolo Mancini, "Do We Need Normative Theories of Journalism?"
- Wolfgang Donsbach and Thomas E. Patterson, "Journalists' Roles and Newsroom Practices: A Cross-National Comparison"
- David L. Swanson and Paolo Mancini, "Politics, Media and Modern Democracy:
Introduction"
- Week 3: Britain
- Ralph Negrine, Politics and the Mass Media in Britain, chs. 3-9
- Jay G. Blumler, Dennis Kavanaugh and T.J. Nossiter, "Modern Communications
versus Traditional Politics in Britain: Unstable Marriage of Convenience," in
Swanson and Mancini, Politics, Media and Modern Demoracy
- Ivor Gaber, "Driving the News or Spinning Out of Control: Politicians, the
Media and the Battle for the News Agenda"
- Week 4: France, Italy and Spain
- Raymond Kuhn, The Media in France, chs. 1,2
- Jean K. Chalaby, "Journalism as an Anglo-American Invention: A Comparison of the Development of French and Anglo-American Journalism, 1830s-1920s,"
European Journal of Communication 11 (1996)
- Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini, "Speaking of the President: Political
Structure and Representational Form in U.S. and Italian Television News,"
Theory and Society (1986)
- Paolo Mancini, "Between Trust and Suspicion: How Italian Journalists Solve the Dilemma," European Journal of Communication 8 (1993)
- Gianpetro Mazzoleni, "Towards a 'Videocracy'? Italian Political Communication at a Turning Point," European Journal of Communi-cation, 10 (1995).
- Juan I. Rospir, "Political Communication and Electoral Campaigns in the Young Spanish Democracy," in Swanson and Mancini, Politics, Media and Modern
Demoracy
- Week 5: Germany and the Nordic Countries
- Peter J. Humphreys, Media and Media Policy in Germany, ch. 2
- R. Kocher, "Bloodhounds or Missionaries: Role Definitions of German and
British Journalists," European Journal of Communi-cation, 1 (1986).
- Karl-Erik Gustafsson, "The Press Subsidies of Sweden: A Decade of Experiment," in Anthony Smith, ed., Newspapers and Democracy
- Kent Asp and Peter Esaiasson, "The Modernization of Swedish Campaigns:
Individualization, Professionalization, Medialization," in Swanson and Mancini,
Politics, Media and Modern Demoracy
- Klaus Schoenbach, "The 'Americanization of German Election Campaigns: Any
Impact on Voters?" in Swanson and Mancini, Politics, Media and Modern
Demoracy
- Week 6: Eastern Europe
- Maryellen Boyle, "Building a Communicative Democracy: The Birth and Death of Citizen Politics in East Germany" in Media, Culture and Society, 16
(1994)
- Colin Sparks and Anna Reading, "Understanding Media Change in East Central
Europe" in Media, Culture and Society, 16 (1994)
- Ellen Mickiewicz and Andrei Richter, "Television, Campaigning and Elections in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia," in Swanson and Mancini, Politics,
Media and Modern Demoracy
- Karol Jakubowicz, "Television and Elections in Post-1989 Poland: How Powerful is the Medium?" in Swanson and Mancini, Politics, Media and Modern
Demoracy
Part II: The Politics of Broadcasting and Broadcast Regulation
- Week 7: The Transformation of European Broadcasting
- Jay G. Blumler, Television and the Public Interest, chs. 2-3
- Denis McQuail, Rosario de Mateo and Helena Tapper, "A Framework for Analysis of Media Change in Europe in the 1990s," in Siune and Truetzschler, eds,
Dynamics of Media Politics
- Eli Noam, Television in Europe, ch. 29
- Eva Etzioni-Halevy, National Broadcasting Under Seige: A Comparative Study of Australia, Britain, Israel and West Germany, chs. 1-3
- Week 8: The Politics of Broadcasting: Case Studies
- Raymond Kuhn, The Media in France, chs. 3-7
- Richard Maxwell, The Spectacle of Democracy: Spanish Television,
Nationalism and Political Transition
- Nelson Traquina, "Portugese Television: The Politics of Savage Deregulation,"
European Journal of Communication
- Week 9: The Politics of Broadcasting: More Case Studies
- Peter J. Humphreys, Media and Media Policy in Germany, ch. 4
- Denis McQuail, "The Netherlands: Freedom and Diversity Under Multichannel
Conditions," in Jay G. Blumler, ed., Television and the Public Interest
- Andra Leurdijk, "Common Sense versus Political Discourse: Debating
Racism and Multicultural Society in Dutch Talk Shows," European Journal of
Communication 12, 1996
- Week 10: The Media and Nationalism
- Philip Schlesinger, Media, State and Nation
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