Western Media Systems

Hardy, Jonathan

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“…Until recently, however, maybe one of the most obvious moderating factors has received hardly any attention: political parallelism. Political parallelism refers to the ties between a medium and a political actor (Hardy, 2008;Seymour-Ure, 1974). It is quite remarkable that political parallelism has been ignored as a moderating factor, since Hallin and Mancini identify it in their seminal work Comparing Media Systems (2004) as one of the most important elements that characterize the media system of a country.…”

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Political Parallelism in Media and Political Agenda-Setting

Pas¹,

Brug

Vliegenthart

2017

Political Communication

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This article investigates whether agenda-setting relations between newspapers and political parties are influenced by political parallelism. Our case is the Netherlands, a country characterized by high levels of journalistic professionalization and independent media. We focus on newspaper coverage and oral parliamentary questions and use time series analysis to inspect influence both of parliament on newspapers and of newspapers on parliament. The results show that parties respond only to issues raised in newspapers their voters read, and that newspapers only respond to the agenda of parties their readers vote for. This demonstrates that even in mediatized, professionalized media contexts, parallelism is still of importance to understand the relationship between media and politics.Keywords political parallelism, agenda-setting, parliamentary questions, newspapers, the Netherlands IntroductionIn recent years, the political agenda-setting approach toward studying the interaction between parliament and media has become increasingly popular. Extant research in this tradition shows that the effect of media on politics and vice versa is a contingent one, where direction and size depend on a wide variety of factors. These factors cover a whole range of issue characteristics, media characteristics and political party characteristics (see Walgrave & Van Aelst, 2006 for an overview). Until recently, however, maybe one of the most obvious moderating factors has received hardly any attention: political parallelism. Political parallelism refers to the ties between a medium and a political actor (Hardy, 2008;Seymour-Ure, 1974). It is quite remarkable that political parallelism has been ignored as a moderating factor, since Hallin and Mancini identify it in their seminal work Comparing Media Systems (2004) as one of the most important elements that characterize the media system of a country.Daphne J. van der Pas is Postdoctoral Researcher, and Wouter van der Brug is Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam. Rens Vliegenthart is Professor, Department of Communication Science, University of Amsterdam.Address correspondence to Daphne J. van der Pas, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, Postbus 15578, 1001 NB Amsterdam, the Netherlands. E-mail: d.j.vanderpas@uva.nl This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/ 4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. 491As far as we are aware, there is only one study that focuses on the extent to which political parallelism moderates agenda-setting effects: a study by Vliegenthart and Mena Montes (2014) on the coverage of the economic crisis. They show that in Spain, a country with high levels of political parallelism, political agenda-setting effects are particular...

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Vliegenthart

2017

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“…El papel de la prensa como "cuarto poder", supuesto formulado en el siglo XVIII, se ha ido complementando e incluso sustituyendo por la convicción de que la información libre y plural es un elemento nuclear para cualquier democracia. Los medios de comunicación, como actores fundamentales en la configuración de la agenda y la opinión pública, tienen una alta responsabilidad en la transmisión de valores a la sociedad (Hardy, 2008), cifrada en garantizar el derecho a la información y expresión según unos principios de responsabilidades profesionales.…”

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Accountability y culturas periodísticas en España. Impacto y propuesta de buenas prácticas en los medios de comunicación españoles’ (MediaACES)

Suárez-Villegas

Martínez

Ríos

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Cómo citar este artículo / Referencia normalizada J C Suárez-Villegas, R Rodríguez-Martínez, M Mauri-Ríos, A López-Meri (2017): "Accountability y culturas periodísticas en España. Impacto y propuesta de buenas prácticas en los medios de comunicación españoles" (MediaACES) " Abstracts [ES]La responsabilidad de los medios de comunicación y de los profesionales de la información ha de expresarse a través de mecanismos de rendición de cuentas (media accountability) que permitan conocer el grado de cumplimiento de valores como el pluralismo, la transparencia y la veracidad informativa. Este proyecto busca detectar las culturas periodísticas existentes en distintas comunidades autónomas de España, y examinar el impacto de los instrumentos de rendición de cuentas o media accountability systems en cada territorio. El trabajo parte de la hipótesis de que la cultura periodística en España no responde a un único modelo de sistema de medios (modelo mediterráneo o pluralista polarizado), como señalan Hallin y Mancini en Comparing Media Systems, sino que la diversidad de culturas periodísticas requiere matizar esta clasificación. La metodología combina la técnica de la encuesta online a diferentes actores mediáticos y diversos focus group con expertos, responsable de medios y ciudadanos. Los resultados permitirán diseñar y proporcionar a los medios modelos de evaluación de rendición de cuentas que integren valores como la transparencia y la pluralidad.[EN] Media accountability must be performed through mechanisms that allow the public to measure the commitment of journalists and information professionals to such values as pluralism, transparency and accuracy. This article seeks to identify the journalistic cultures existing in the several Spanish autonomous communities and to measure the impact of the media accountability systems implemented in each one of these communitites. and that this fact demands the review of such classification. The research design combines an online survey among different media actors and focus groups of citizens, media experts, and media professionals. The results will allow the design and assessment of media accountability models in which values such as transparency and plurality are integrated.

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“…Los medios de comunicación, como actores fundamentales en la configuración de la agenda y la opinión pública, tienen una alta responsabilidad en la transmisión de valores a la sociedad (Hardy, 2008). La tarea de un periodista o comunicador de garantizar que el derecho a la información y expresión de los ciudadanos se cumpla, debe ser ponderado con el cumplimiento de una serie de responsabilidades profesionales.…”

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