The Mediation of Power: A Critical Introduction Book

List of illustrations     xi
Preface and acknowledgements     xiii
Introduction: critical engagements with mediated power     1
Media policy: communication and the economic inefficiencies of market liberalisation     17
Media production: discursive practices, news production and the mobilisation of bias in public discourse     36
Media management and public relations: public media, inter-elite conflict and power     55
Culture, discourse and power: the rediscovery of elite culture and power in media studies?     74
Mediated politics: the mediation of parliamentary politics     96
New and alternative media: the Internet and the parliamentary public sphere     113
Interest groups and mediated mobilisation: communication in the Make Poverty History campaign   Nick Sireau   Aeron Davis     131
Media audiences and effects: the question of the rational audience in the London Stock Exchange     151
Conclusion     170
A short note on research methods     178
List of interviewees     182
Notes     187
Bibliography     191
Index     215