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From "Pirates" to "Heroes": News, Discourse Change, and the Contested Legitimacy of Generic HIV/AIDS Medicines 13 Jun 2013 | 04:12 pm
In the mid-1990s, a transnational civil society campaign emerged to challenge Big Pharma over HIV/AIDS medicines patent protection. In 2001, the dispute crystallized into a dramatic media event as pha...
Media Choice and Informed Democracy: Toward Increasing News Consumption Gaps in Europe? 13 Jun 2013 | 04:12 pm
It was previously perceived as a citizen’s responsibility to follow the news and to keep oneself informed about politics and current affairs. Recently, however, it appears as though a growing number o...
Cooperative or Adversarial? Journalists' Enactment of the Watchdog Function in Political News Production 13 Jun 2013 | 04:12 pm
This study examines how power relations between journalism and political actors vary across the news production process. Applying a process approach, it addresses this issue by exploring journalists’ ...
Connecting in Crisis: "Old" and "New" Media and the Arab Spring 13 Jun 2013 | 04:12 pm
When political unrest spread from Tunisia to neighboring countries early in 2011, established global broadcasters were quick to provide commentary on the part played by social media in mobilizing diss...
"Trial by the Press": An Examination of Journalism, Ethics, and Islam in Indonesia and Malaysia 13 Jun 2013 | 04:12 pm
In the United States, when journalists or legal scholars use the term "trial by the press," it is usually in the context of pretrial publicity, and the First Amendment right to freedom of expression v...
The Mediatization of Politics: Interpreting the Value of Live versus Edited Journalistic Interventions in U.K. Television News Bulletins 13 Jun 2013 | 04:12 pm
This article interprets the mediatization of television news generally and political news specifically in United Kingdom (U.K.) public and commercial evening bulletins. We argue that routine conventio...
Not (Yet) a New Era of Minimal Effects: A Study of Agenda Setting at the Aggregate and Individual Levels 6 Mar 2013 | 03:49 pm
In recent years, profound media environmental changes have sparked a controversy regarding whether we are entering a new era of minimal effects. Focusing on one of the most important media effect theo...
Still On the Beaten Path: How Gender Impacted the Coverage of Male and Female Romanian Candidates for European Office 6 Mar 2013 | 03:49 pm
This study discusses variations in the media coverage of the most prominent male and female EP candidates from Romania in the four weeks leading up to Election Day (May 8 to June 7, 2009). The verbal-...
In Democracy As in Dictatorship: Government Pressures on the Spanish Private News Agency Europa Press 6 Mar 2013 | 03:49 pm
During the Spanish transition to democracy, media liberalization mostly affected newspapers and magazines. As for news agencies, the official Efe, founded in 1939, was favored by both dictatorial and ...
Commercialism and Election Framing: A Content Analysis of Twelve Newspapers in the 2011 Irish General Election 6 Mar 2013 | 03:49 pm
The framing of elections represents the most overt instance of the media’s power to influence politics. We content analyzed twelve newspapers’ coverage of the 2011 general election in Ireland. Ireland...
