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Information and Arena: The Dual Function of the News Media for Political Elites Read chapter Read first chapter

2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

2. An Intervening Intermediary: Making Political Sense of Media Influence

Author : Gunnar Thesen

Published in: How Political Actors Use the Media

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This theoretical chapter puts political actors’ news use into a broader political science context. Despite increasing acknowledgement of the media as a political institution and actor, media influence on politics should be distinguished from other types of influence typically studied by political scientists. Media influence is not about what the media “gets”, but rather about how news intervene in the political processes that determine the distribution of power between other political actors and institutions. We call this the second layer of media’s political influence, and argue that studies of media and politics should to a larger extent use theories about the strategies and motives of political actors as a starting point in order to contribute to the explanation of who gets what, when, and how.

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Metadata
Title
An Intervening Intermediary: Making Political Sense of Media Influence
Author
Gunnar Thesen
Copyright Year
2017
Book
How Political Actors Use the Media

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-60248-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-60249-3

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60249-3_2