Thesis (M.A.)--University of Louisville, 2009. / Department of Political Science. Vita. "August 2009." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-67).

Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2005. Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-106). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url%5Fver=Z39.88-2004&res%5Fdat=xri:pqdiss &rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR11924

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, August, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

M.A. (Politics) / This study represents an empirical inquiry into the attitudes of South African Members of Parliament towards the credibility of the South African press. The study was conducted in the field of Political Science, but literature from the field of Communication Science was also used to explain certain aspects of mass media behaviour and political communication. In any governmental system political leaders are the most important people in the decision-making process. In most societies with a high level of technological development the mass media is the primary and most frequently used instrument for disseminating information and influencing public opinion. It can be used very effectively by political leaders to make contact with the electorate. Chapter One deals with the research problem of the study. Political leaders in South Africa are confronted by a specific reality when reading different newspapers. This reality is one created by the criteria of newsworthiness and editorial policy, as well as by the political interests of newspapers. This study attempts to determine to what extent political leaders. experience this reality of newspaper reporting as credible. This question is answered by an analysis of the attitudes of South African MPs toward the credibility of the press. The interaction between the political leader and the press is the most important aspect of the theoretical framework for this study. Different dimensions of this relationship are analysed. Influence is regarded as one of the major concepts in this relationship. In the communication process the relationship of influence between sender and receiver is of major importance. This relationship consists of the following elements: (1) the situation or context in which the communication occurs; (2) communicator or message characteristics; (3) receiver characteristics; (4) effects. To isolate certain of these...

This thesis explores the dynamics and complexities of the press-politician relationship in the context of the British Columbia Legislature and Press Gallery. The relationship is examined from theoretical, historical/institutional, practical, and political perspectives. The evidence presented suggests that although the press-politician relationship is necessarily symbiotic, it is also characterized by conflict and attempts by both press and politicians to achieve independence of each other. As such, the relationship is most accurately described as one of "adversarial symbiosis." The sources of strain and the constructive elements of the relationship work in tandem to move the province closer to the ideals of legislative democracy as the relationship evolves over time. Provincial press galleries are notoriously under-documented, both through independent research and through their own administration. To date, there has not been a comprehensive study of the British Columbia Press Gallery as an institution of the Legislature. As a result, this thesis relies heavily on oral history, provided through semi-structured interviews with current and former members of the Press Gallery, and published biographies of B.C. journalists and politicians. This thesis was also informed by a review of the existing literature on the Canadian, Australian and British Parliamentary Press Galleries, archival research at the B.C. Legislative Library and Press Gallery offices and personal observation and analysis afforded by the author's six-month Legislative Internship in the B.C. Legislature. / Arts, Faculty of / Political Science, Department of / Graduate

The central question in this thesis is what are the interrelationships between the news media and those at the center of power and how do these shape the role the media play in democratic processes, particularly since neoliberal reforms in 1991. More specifically, this research attempts to illuminate journalistic practice and the factors that influence it, at the intersection of political and economic interests in what is often described as a crony capitalist polity (Kohli, 2007; Varshney, 2000). This has been done by examining three case studies that represented the interests of those at the center of power and the growing collusion between the state and private capital that has been a mark of the polity's neoliberal turn (Chandrashekhar, 2014). Each of these - the Nira Radia conversations that exposed the nexus between private capital and the state, the news media's coverage of the political elite, mainly the Gandhi family and the leader of the Hindu majoritarian political party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Narendra Modi, and lastly, the media's coverage of India's richest business house Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and its owner Mukesh Ambani - was marked by extensive self-censorship by the national mainstream news media. The theoretical architecture underpinning this project draws on three major approaches - political economy, field theory and new institutional theory provides a framework sufficiently sensitive to the range of pressures and influences journalism is subject to. This research draws on forty semi-structured, in-depth interviews with forty journalists and editors who were directly involved in the editorial processes of each of these news stories. The salient finding of this project is that the field of journalism has been subject to regular incursions from the field of power, particularly when political and economic interests are aligned, such that the field of journalism collapses in the field of power resulting in the need to reassess Bourdieu's claim that fields, however heteronomous, possess a degree of autonomy. This research finds that journalism is not merely embedded in the field of power, it plays a more pernicious role after economic liberalization. It becomes an active participant in negotiating and consolidating the dominant coalition of economic and political interests on which the polity rests. In other words, it is recruited by the field of power in institutionalizing crony capitalism. However, the self-censorship could not be sustained and unraveled, albeit briefly, in each of these cases. Contradictions between the macro forces induced by the consolidation of democracy, dissensus within the elite and constitutional limits circumscribing power are some of the variables that allow for interstices of journalistic autonomy. Thus, new institutionalism's insistence on retaining the political elided by both political economy and field theory, is valuable. Lastly, this research foregrounds the role played by journalistic agency in upholding the democratic mission of journalism.

by York-kee So. / Thesis (M. Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1982. / Bibliography: leaves 106-114.

作者黃嘉莉. / 論文(碩士) -- 香港中文大學新聞與傳播學系, 1997. / 參考文獻: leaves [1-7] (3rd group) / zuo zhe Huang Jiali. / Chapter 一、 --- 引言 --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- 硏究動機與目的 / Chapter 1.2 --- 過渡期香港的政黨政治與傳媒互動 / Chapter 1.3 --- 硏究提問及取向 / Chapter 1.4 --- 從框架理論看傳媒主導的博奕狀態 / Chapter 1.5 --- 論文硏究結構 / Chapter 2.1 --- 香港政治社會變遷與組織力量的崛起 --- p.7 / Chapter ´Ø --- 戰後至七十年代一一確立利益團體的群眾基礎： 由殖民行政統治至開放政治參與度 / Chapter ´Ø --- 八十年代一一政制轉型新局面： 政治市場的力量分佈，整合與重組 / Chapter ´Ø --- 九十年代一一政黨政治新生面貌:正統政黨的合成班子 / Chapter 2.2 --- 政黨組織的策略性角色 / Chapter 2.3 --- ´ؤ九九一立法局直選的衝擊：政_競爭、意識形態兩極化 / Chapter 2.4 --- 北京介定局勢的均衡-由三黨鼎足至親中、民主陣營的兩極化鋪陳 / Chapter 2.5 --- 政黨與傳媒的契合-政黨政治合法化 / Chapter 三、 --- 理論與文獻探討 --- p.18 / Chapter 3.1 --- 傳媒與社會的本質關聯 / Chapter ´Ø --- 政黨和傳媒的關係：階級層次上 意識形態立場取向 組織特質與資源 / Chapter 3.2 --- 權力關係透視 / Chapter ´Ø --- 從市場模式看媒介社會學 / Chapter ´Ø --- 引用操縱模式解釋媒介內容的約制 / Chapter 3.3 --- 從權力、資源、依附關係看黨與媒介的互動 / Chapter ´Ø --- 以傳播媒介主導的資訊社會 / Chapter ´Ø --- 政黨的策略性回應一一商討過程 / Chapter 3.4 --- 框架理論之應用 / Chapter ´Ø --- 框架理論源流演變 / Chapter ´Ø --- 新聞框架的功能定義 / Chapter ´Ø --- 新聞框架的競爭性發展 / Chapter ´Ø --- 釐定新聞框架的演變途徑 / Chapter ´Ø --- 框架構成的因由 / Chapter 四、 --- 理論架構及槪念假設 --- p.30 / Chapter 4.1 --- 新聞框架的槪念定義 / Chapter 4.2 --- 新聞框架與政黨議題的動態關聯 / Chapter 4.3 --- 硏究槪念定義 / Chapter ´Ø --- 政黨方面 / Chapter ´Ø --- 傳播媒介方面 / Chapter ´Ø --- 互動結果及意義 / Chapter 4.4 --- 硏究類目：政黨預期框架策略的標示 / Chapter 4.5 --- 分析步驟及程序 / Chapter 4.6 --- 訪談類目 / Chapter 五、 --- 文本分析一比較兩個政黨與新聞媒體的微觀互動 --- p.45 / Chapter 5.1 --- 從政黨的社會、政治、媒介地位，察看其被框架定型的格局 / Chapter ´Ø --- 民主黨對民建聯 / Chapter ´Ø --- 對社會重視資訊的控制 / Chapter ´Ø --- 人力經濟資源 / Chapter ´Ø --- 與政府機構要員正式或非正式聯繫 / Chapter ´Ø --- 資訊控制 / Chapter ´Ø --- 傳播策略 / Chapter ´Ø --- 傳播目標 / Chapter ´Ø --- 框架排放孔道 / Chapter 5.2 --- 記者對政黨框架策略的應對：兩極化的鋪陳 / Chapter 5.3 --- 報章新聞框架的鑑定及歸納基模 / Chapter 5.4 --- 民主黨的新聞框架 / Chapter ´Ø --- 論調轉¨¬ت之虞 / Chapter ´Ø --- 違紀退黨正常化 / Chapter ´Ø --- 內部分裂框架成爲黨員爭拗角力場 / Chapter ´Ø --- 黨的內憂外患 / Chapter ´Ø --- 處於溝通困境框架的民主黨 / Chapter ´Ø --- 黨領袖層獨裁框架 / Chapter ´Ø --- 黨內口徑矛盾化 / Chapter ´Ø --- 小結 / Chapter 5.5 --- 民建聯的新聞框架 / Chapter ´Ø --- 飛躍進步框架的鋪排 / Chapter ´Ø --- 口徑齊一化 / Chapter ´Ø --- 正名鎭壓：違黨事件乖離化 / Chapter ´Ø --- 花絮式話題框架 / Chapter ´Ø --- 利好溝通框架滲進傳媒版面 / Chapter 5.6 --- 小結硏究假設之印證 / Chapter 六、 --- 分析及討論 --- p.72 / Chapter 6.1 --- 政黨資源組織策略部署一結構分析 / Chapter 6.2 --- 民主黨 / Chapter ´Ø --- 議會政治：黨人與記者的交流互動 / Chapter ´Ø --- 攻陷新聞作業的常規 / Chapter ´Ø --- 民主黨扮演消息發放的角色 / Chapter ´Ø --- 全新形勢看兩者關係：記者對民主黨的期望 / Chapter ´Ø --- 面對政敵及媒介的指控：民主黨依仗「危機框架」借力 / Chapter ´Ø --- 傳媒對民主黨持有的雙重標準 / Chapter ´Ø --- 黨人看記者的另一種態度 / Chapter ´Ø --- 小結：化弱爲強一一處理新聞框架的相應策略(危機感效應） / Chapter 6.3 --- 民建聯的崛起：憑組織戰喚起傳媒重視 / Chapter ´Ø --- 黨的傳播目標及策略 / Chapter ´Ø --- 四個框架發展空間：建黨特質 財政方面 組織資源一鐵票理論 中方介入一新華社的角色 / Chapter ´Ø --- 運用組織資源淨化不利因素 / Chapter ´Ø --- 力陳「親中」政治資本，建立知名度 / Chapter ´Ø --- 媒介策略的成效評估 / Chapter ´Ø --- 民建聯談組織、功績加包裝的「雙重勤勞」 / Chapter ´Ø --- 親中特色黨派與傳媒意識形態的矛盾 / Chapter ´Ø --- 組織傳播特質與傳媒的利害關係 / Chapter ´Ø --- 小結 / Chapter 6.5 --- 政黨、傳媒的低度結合：香港的特殊性 / Chapter ´Ø --- 政黨支配傳媒的局限 / Chapter ´Ø --- 採訪、報道行規的拉力 / Chapter ´Ø --- 賽馬式新聞報道與新聞從業員的作業取向 / Chapter ´Ø --- 記者個人預設的世界觀 / Chapter ´Ø --- 記者與行內參考群的互動協商 / Chapter ´Ø --- 傳媒與黨以外的框架設定因素 / Chapter ´Ø --- 小結：宏觀情境因素「中方介入」與「民意方向」干預新聞框架的生態 / Chapter 七、 --- 結論：硏究回應及啓示 --- p.102 / Chapter 八、 --- 參考書目 --- p.107

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by Yuet-lin Lee. / Thesis (M.Ph.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1987. / Bibliography: leaves 137-142.