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Crises, Radical Online Journalism, and the State
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Understanding the Liberal State Corporate Media, Hegemony, and Counter-Hegemony Maintaining Order: A Tale of Two Rebellions Producing Alternative Spaces The Liberal Paradox: Media Freedom as Constraint Conclusion Note References
... As a response to crises, mediated public spheres may challenge political and social hegemony (Salter, 2012). In Spain, the mobilizations that emerged after 2011 were accompanied by a modification in the digital media, with a political discourse that, as reported in The Guardian (Kassam, 2014), offered the population alternative sources. ...
... This stance explains the results of our study, insofar as online-only opinion was less fiscally conservative in 2014. In the context of the global economic crisis, the fact that there were no favorable mentions of reductions in public spending in 2014 contrasts with the stance adopted by international media such as BBC News Online, which has advocated cutting public spending (Salter, 2012). ...
The year of 2011 was one of global change, provoked by an economic crisis that brought neoliberalism into question. In Spain, the activity unleashed by the " 15-M " movement culminated in the formation of Podemos, a party that has provoked a political earthquake. Simultaneously, several alternative left-leaning online-only newspapers have erupted in Spain. This article focuses on whether these changes were accompanied by ideological/political shifts in Spanish online-only opinion journalism between 2011 and 2014. A sample of 541 opinion columns was content-analyzed. Results indicate that digital journalism criticizes the establishment, broadens the ideological spectrum, and distances itself from bipartisanship. However, the shift is fundamentally conveyed through the attack and defense of political parties without generating a clearly radical journalism. Keywords: online-only newspapers, opinion journalism, ideology and the press, Spanish media, 15-M movement Ideology, Politics, and the (Online-Only) Press The relationship of the press with ideology and politics is a well-consolidated field of study. For example, van Dijk's (1995) discourse analysis has become a classic reference in the study of ideology and the press. The phenomenon has also been explored from the critical perspectives of cultural studies and the political economy of communication. From the perspective of British cultural studies at the Birmingham School, the critical analysis of the concept of ideology is a central theme in Stuart Hall, who point outs that the media reproduce " the hegemonic ideological discourse in an effective manner, " thanks to the " metaideology " that maintains that the press is free of political and economic influences (Downey,
How control over information creation, processing, flows, and use has become the most effective form of power: theoretical foundations and empirical examples of information policy in the U.S., an innovator informational state.
As the informational state replaces the bureaucratic welfare state, control over information creation, processing, flows, and use has become the most effective form of power. In Change of State Sandra Braman examines the theoretical and practical ramifications of this "change of state." She looks at the ways in which governments are deliberate, explicit, and consistent in their use of information policy to exercise power, exploring not only such familiar topics as intellectual property rights and privacy but also areas in which policy is highly effective but little understood. Such lesser-known issues include hybrid citizenship, the use of "functionally equivalent borders" internally to allow exceptions to U.S. law, research funding, census methods, and network interconnection. Trends in information policy, argues Braman, both manifest and trigger change in the nature of governance itself.After laying the theoretical, conceptual, and historical foundations for understanding the informational state, Braman examines 20 information policy principles found in the U.S Constitution. She then explores the effects of U.S. information policy on the identity, structure, borders, and change processes of the state itself and on the individuals, communities, and organizations that make up the state. Looking across the breadth of the legal system, she presents current law as well as trends in and consequences of several information policy issues in each category affected.
Change of State introduces information policy on two levels, coupling discussions of specific contemporary problems with more abstract analysis drawing on social theory and empirical research as well as law. Most important, the book provides a way of understanding how information policy brings about the fundamental social changes that come with the transformation to the informational state.
Funding for the OA edition is provided by Texas A&M University.
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Crime, Justice and the Media examines and analyzes the relationship between the media and crime, criminals and the criminal justice system. It considers how crime and criminals have been portrayed by the media over time, applying different theoretical perspectives on the media to the way crime, criminals and justice is reported. It focuses on a number of specific areas of crime and criminal justice in terms of media representation - these areas include moral panics over specific crimes and criminals (including youth crime, cybercrime and paedophilia), the media portrayal of victims of crime and criminals and the way the media represent criminal justice agencies. The book offers a clear, accessible and comprehensive analysis of theoretical thinking on the relationship between the media, crime and criminal justice and a detailed examination of how crime, criminals and others involved in the criminal justice process are portrayed by the media. A key strength of the book is its interactive approach - throughout the text students are encouraged to respond to the material presented and think for themselves.