Real News about the News

Media and British Politics

AvKenneth Newton

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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What role does the media play in British politics? There is growing concern that the media environment is biased, and that online news and social media spread fake news, conspiracy theories, propaganda, and foreign interference. Examining TV, radio, newspapers and the internet, Kenneth Newton unravels the real effects of the mainstream and alternative news media. With abundant evidence, Newton demonstrates that, contrary to popular belief: newspapers neither win nor lose elections; nor set election agendas; most citizens have a fairly mixed news diet and do not inhabit echo-chambers; social media influences on political attitudes are generally small and actually expand the range of news people get; impartial and reliable public service news still provides the bulk of the nation's news diet. Evidence shows that the main media effects on political attitudes and behaviour are positive and inform and mobilise citizens rather than influencing their voting choice.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-02-01
Mått:160 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt:437 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:202
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009387033

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Kenneth Newton is Professor Emeritus at Southampton University. He served as Executive Director of the ECPR and as a member of the Executive of IPSA and the PSA UK. His research publications cover social and political trust, democratic innovations, city politics and media politics and he is the co-author of Foundations of Comparative Politics (4th edition, with Jan van Deth, Cambridge 2021).

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'Real News about the News examines the conventional wisdom about the role of the media in contemporary British politics - and often shows the conventional wisdom is inaccurate. Newton uses diverse evidence to test claims of citizens' limited information, media silos, the impact of fake news, media agenda-setting, media malaise and other topics. This is a thoughtful, well-written and well-documented study that should make us rethink many of our views about the contemporary mass media in Britain and other affluent democracies.' Russell J. Dalton, University of California, Irvine

Innehållsförteckning

1. Massive and minimal media effects; 2. The news landscape; 3. News diets; 4. Avoiding, rejecting, ignoring and accepting; 5. Digital pessimism; 6. Newspapers, voting and agenda-setting; 7. Media malaise and the mean world effect; 8. Personal experience as a reality check; 9. Pluralism and democracy; 10. Practical lessons.