Michael Gurevitch’s research while affiliated with Loyola University Maryland and other places


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Publications (16)


Politicians and the Press
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April 2023

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Jay Blumler

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Michael Gurevitch

TABLE 1 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN NEWS: INTERNET BOOM IN 2008 (IN PERCENTAGES) 
Political Communication —Old and New Media Relationships
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August 2009

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The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

This article reflects upon the ways television changed the political landscape and considers how far new media, such as the Internet, are displacing television or reconfiguring the political communications ecology. The analysis explores opportunities and challenges facing media producers, politicians, and citizens. The authors conclude by suggesting that the television-politics relationship that emerged in the 1960s still prevails to some extent in the digital era but faces new pressures that weaken the primacy of the broadcast-centered model of political communication. The authors identify five new features of political communication that present formidable challenges for media policy makers. They suggest that these are best addressed through an imaginative, democratic approach to nurturing the emancipatory potential of the new media ecology by carving out within it a trusted online space where the dispersed energies, self-articulations, and aspirations of citizens can be rehearsed, in public, within a process of ongoing feedback to the various levels and centers of governance.

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20 Years of Television in Israel: Are There Long-run Effects on Values, Social Connectedness, and Cultural Practices?

February 2006

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Journal of Communication

Based on identical studies of the uses of leisure, culture, and communication in Israel in 1970 and 1990, we sought to infer possible long-run effects of the introduction of television broadcasting 20 years after its inception. Although time spent outside the home did not decrease, there was a drop in attendance at ‘spectacles’ of all kinds (whether theater or sports) and a rise in activities that are interactive, time flexible, and peer based. We speculate on how television might be implicated in these changes in leisure and culture. We tend to absolve Israel Television-in its 2 decades of monopolistic public broadcasting-from responsibility for the observed decline in collectivity orientation and political activism despite the fact that precisely such fears were expressed during the years of debate over the wisdom of introducing medium.


State of the Art of Comparative Political Communication Research: Poised for Maturity?

September 2004

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This chapter attempts an assessment of the current status of comparative political communication research. Its core concept is maturity. Comparative approaches to political communications, albeit promising and sometimes impressive, can seem ragged when compared, say, with the solidity of their application in other social sciences (e.g., sociology and political science). Our central point is that the quality of comparative research can vary not only in scientific rigor but also, and perhaps more importantly, in its ability to reveal fundamental and broadly influential features of the structures and cultures of the societies being examined. Our concern throughout this chapter therefore is that of how to recognize and to achieve such maturity in the subfield of comparative political communication scholarship. In fact, this is our third attempt to take stock of the “state of the art” of comparative political communication research. In the first such effort, more than a quarter century ago (Blumler and Gurevitch 1975) we depicted comparative political communication research as a “field in its infancy.” The dominant tone was one of uncertainty, illustrated by the opening paragraph of the essay: Writing in 1975, nobody could claim to be able to paint an assured portrait of the field of investigation to be described in this essay. It is not merely that few political communication studies have been mounted with a comparative focus. More to the point, there is neither a settled view of what such studies should be concerned with, nor even a firmly crystallized set of alternative options for research between which scholars of diverse philosophic persuasions could choose.


Der Stand der vergleichenden politischen Kommunikationsforschung: Ein eigenständiges Feld formiert sich

January 2003

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Im Mittelpunkt dieses Beitrages stehen der gegenwärtige Stand und die Entwicklung der vergleichenden politischen Kommunikationsforschung hin zu einem eigenständigen, „reifen“ Forschungsfeld. Vergleichende Ansätze in der politischen Kommunikationsforschung können, auch wenn sie bisweilen eindrucksvoll und viel versprechend sind, ziemlich stümperhaft erscheinen, verglichen mit der Fundierung solcher Ansätze in anderen Sozialwissenschaften wie z.B. der Soziologie und der Politikwissenschaft. Wir argumentieren, dass die Qualität vergleichender Forschung nicht nur hinsichtlich ihrer wissenschaftlichen Standards variiert, sondern — und das erscheint vielleicht noch wichtiger — auch hinsichtlich ihres Vermögens, grundlegende und wirkungsmächtige Merkmale der Strukturen und Kulturen der untersuchten Gesellschaften offen zu legen. Das Hauptaugenmerk dieses Artikels gilt daher der Frage, wie wir die Formierung der vergleichenden Forschung als Teildisziplin der politischen Kommunikation weiterhin verstärken und ausbauen können.


The New Media and Our Political Communication Discontents: Democratizing Cyberspace

March 2001

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Information, Communication & Society

This article argues that the new interactive media have a 'vulnerable potential' to enhance public communications and enrich democracy, which can be realized only through appropriate policy support and imaginative institution building. After outlining the main shortcomings of the prevailing political communication system, certain elements of redemptive potential, inherent in distinctive features of the Internet, are identified. The policy implications of this analysis are then drawn for the public-service obligations of mainstream media, to ensure open access to new media platforms, and to create a 'civic commons' in cyberspace.


“Americanization” Reconsidered: U.K.–U.S. Campaign Communication Comparisons Across Time

November 2000

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Mediated Politics explores the changing media environments in contemporary democracy: the internet, the decline of network news and the daily newspaper; the growing tendency to treat election campaigns as competing product advertisements; the blurring lines between news, ads, and entertainment. By combining new developments in political communication with core questions about politics and policy, a distinguished roster of international scholars offers new perspectives and directions for further study. Several broad questions emerge from the book: with ever-increasing media outlets creating more specialized segments, what happens to broader issues? Are there implications for a sense of community? Should media give people only what they want, or also what they need to be good citizens? These and other tensions created by the changing nature of political communication are covered in sections on the changing public sphere; shifts in the nature of political communication; the new shape of public opinion; transformations of political campaigns; and alterations in citizens' needs and involvement.




Political communication systems and democratic values

May 1990

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In this volume a group of distinguished legal and political theorists and experts on journalism discuss how to reconcile our values concerning freedom of the press with the enormous power of the media - especially television - to shape opinions and values. The policy issues treated concern primarily the extent of justifiable government regulation of the media and the justification for regulating television differently from newspapers. The volume contains some highly original and groundbreaking analyses of philosophical issues surrounding the First Amendment of the US Bill of Rights. This is a book for anyone seriously interested in the rights to free speech and expression in technologically advanced societies.


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Citations (13)


... Schlesinger, 1987). In reciprocal models, the relationship between sources and journalists is described as a process of exchange and ongoing social relationship, in which the gathering of information is not a single event but the result of complex interactions between the two actors (Blumler & Gurevitch, 1981). This process of "finding the truth" is described as epistemology of news reporting, which is defined by rules and routines that operate within a social setting, and determines how journalists obtain their knowledge (Ekström, 2002). ...

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Politicians and the Press
  • Citing Chapter
  • April 2023

... Journalism holds a special role in the world of mass communication due to its particular societal importance in democracies. It fulfills a variety of relevant functions, including the provision of information, participation in the formation of public opinion, the exercise of control and criticism, and the promotion of education (Blumler & Gurevitch, 1990;McQuail, 1992). Investigative journalism plays a particularly crucial role in the area of control and criticism and is often referred to as democracy's watchdog (Houston, 2010). ...

Political communication systems and democratic values
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  • May 1990

... That thesis has been supported by the recurrent arguments concerning the growing "Americanisation" and/or commercialisation of European media systems, which have been gaining momentum in academic debate since the 1990s (Blumler & Gurevitch, 2001;Chalaby, 1996;Humphreys, 1996). These considerations have been reinforced by reflections on the impacts of digitalisation, globalisation, economic integration, and the deregulation and liberalisation of Western media markets that have favoured, among other phenomena, the formation of large transnational conglomerates, the harmonisation of media policies, and the questioning of the relevance of national spaces in the digital era (Flew & Waisbord, 2015;Mansell & Raboy, 2014;Mattoni & Ceccobelli, 2018;McChesney, 2001;McPhail, 2014;Murdock & Golding, 1999;Papathanassopoulos et al., 2023). ...

“Americanization” Reconsidered: U.K.–U.S. Campaign Communication Comparisons Across Time
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  • November 2000

... E-mail address: frank.esser@uzh.ch Anzeichen sind zuletzt in einer Reihe von Überblickspublikationen beschrieben worden (siehe etwa Gurevitch & Blumler, 2003;Esser & Hanitzsch, 2012a;Pfetsch & Esser, 2012). Sie kommen einhellig zu der Einschätzung, dass die komparative Kommunikationsforschung zwar den Kinderschuhen und auch den pubertären Flegeljahren entwachsen ist, aber volljährig und eigenständig ist sie noch nicht geworden. ...

Der Stand der vergleichenden politischen Kommunikationsforschung: Ein eigenständiges Feld formiert sich
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  • January 2003

... Yet several studies have also examined this subject within well-established Western democracies-including European-and identified various factors that influence journalistic practices and the reach of journalists' voices. In fact, in this context, it is often argued that political factors play a significant role in cross-national variations (Gurevitch and Blumler 2004;Hallin and Mancini 2004;Weaver 1998). In this regard, Southern European countries have been observed to exhibit a higher level of interventionist journalism, characterised by strong interpretive and commentary-driven news reporting that is influenced by the close connections existing between political parties and newspapers. ...

State of the Art of Comparative Political Communication Research: Poised for Maturity?
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  • September 2004

... Into the early 1960s, he participated in Chicago's interdisciplinary Committee on Communication (about which, see Pooley, 2023;Wahl-Jorgensen, 2004). He absorbed its emphases on popular culture and leisure studies, areas he would make significant contributions to in the decades that followed, most notably by investigating leisure pursuits in Israel with Michael Gurevitch (Katz & Gurevitch, 1976) and cross-cultural readings of the popular TV drama Dallas (Capice & Katzman, 1978-1991 with Tamar Liebes (Liebes & Katz, 1990). He would remain a faculty member at the University of Chicago until 1969, a chapter in his career that has received relatively little attention and which space limits me from pursuing further here. ...

The Secularization of Leisure: Culture and Communication in Israël
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  • January 1976

Revue Française de Sociologie

... Although there are a variety of findings about the degree to which media use by campaigns affects voters, studies over the past 15 years offer substantial evidence suggesting that campaigns do play a major role in shifting public opinion and voter choice, generally termed "campaign effects" (Grabe & Bucy, 2011;Iyengar & Simon, 2000;Johnston & Brady, 2006). Much research has specifically highlighted the most effective strategies in presidential campaign communication (Grabe & Bucy, 2011;Jamieson, 1996;Owen, 1991;Polsby, Wildavsky, Schier, & Hopkins, 2012). Moreover, campaigns for federal office (and especially presidential campaigns) are by far the most covered, the most watched, and the most expensive campaigns in U.S. politics, making them particularly important (although, of course, not the only relevant campaigns) to examine when considering campaign influence (Gulati, Just, & Crigler, 2004). ...

Media Messages in American Presidential Elections
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  • December 1992

American Political Science Association

... Both studies suggested that the mass media played a weak role in election decisions compared with personal influence and influence of other people. As a result, Berelson began amplifying the two-step flow theory, moving away from the concept of an "atomized" audience and toward the impact of personal influence (Katz, 1960). ...

On the Use of Mass Media for Important Things
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  • April 1973

American Sociological Review

... Entre as camadas mais jovens, o consumo de notícias tem sido apontado como fundamento-base do desenvolvimento da identidade cívica e da participação social e consciente (Meijer, 2006). A "reconfiguração ecológica" produz novos padrões de consumo mediático (Gurevitch et al., 2009;Damásio et al., 2015;Silva et al., 2017) e de participação (boyd, 2015;Brites, 2015). À medida que as audiências se tornam mais ativas, há uma intensificação da conexão pública (Couldry et al., 2016) com vários media a servirem de recurso para a interação social dentro de diferentes contextos de ação (Helles et al., 2015). ...

Political Communication —Old and New Media Relationships

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

... These have been dominated by NGOs, intellectuals, journalists, and elite religious organizations such as Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhmmadiyah. In contrast, the blogosphere provided opportunities to engage and expand the mass base (Blumler & Gurevitch, 2001;Gimmler, 2001;Papacharissi, 2002a;. The blogosphere eliminated the ruling elite through the involvement of many people (Grönlund, 2001;Geiger, 2009;Reedy & Wells, 2009). ...

The New Media and Our Political Communication Discontents: Democratizing Cyberspace
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  • March 2001