POLI-1007EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Main Source, Silvio Berlusconi, Activision
4 Jul 2020
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Example: a presidential candidate (trump) shares his fast food, health habit. Trace and define mediatization of politics: looking at traces of pervasive media logic and how it affects other social institutions (in this case, politics) Mediatization theory: media and social institutions are very integrated. Blumler & kavanagh: mediatization is strongly tied to political values and beliefs. + three ages of political communication: communication comes from being subordinate of political institutions to being the main medium of politics (tv), to becoming a powerful institution in its own right. Giddens" structuration theory: media becomes increasingly independent have their own resources, their own rules (logic) that they impose on other institutions. Bourdieu"s field theory: two poles autonomous vs. heteronomous. + reality is a social concept, what is real is relational (max weber) + power relations in fields structure social reality. + metaphor of a football field: each player has their own position that they occupy.
