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Is There Any Future for Research on the Mediatization of Politics?

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Dynamics Of Mediatization

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This chapter presents a multidimensional framework for research into the mediatization of politics. We propose to study the mediatization of politics as a transformation process that is not limited to mutual relations between media and politics but also includes the audience and market institutions. Such a conceptual rebuilding captures the process of mediatization of politics on three social levels: (1) on a macro level, the mediatization is interrelated with other meta-processes, such as marketization and acculturation; (2) meso level grasps an institutional process where games of powers and flows of logics between political, media, social and cultural institutions take place; (3) micro level describes the politics-related media practices of society. This framework is presented on a case study of the Committee for the Defence of Democracy social movement.

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  1. Department of Journalism and Social Communication, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland

    Barbara Brodzińska-Mirowska & Łukasz Wojtkowski

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  1. The Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Olivier Driessens

  2. Department of Media and Communication Studies, Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden

    Göran Bolin

  3. ZeMKI Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Andreas Hepp

  4. Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Stig Hjarvard

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Brodzińska-Mirowska, B., Wojtkowski, Ł. (2017). Is There Any Future for Research on the Mediatization of Politics?. In: Driessens, O., Bolin, G., Hepp, A., Hjarvard, S. (eds) Dynamics Of Mediatization. Transforming Communications – Studies in Cross-Media Research. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62983-4_7

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