ISSN:
0304-4130
Language:
English
Additional Material:
Lit. S. 456-458
Titel der Quelle:
European journal of political research
Publ. der Quelle:
Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 1973
Angaben zur Quelle:
33(1998), 4, Seite 439-458
Angaben zur Quelle:
volume:33
Angaben zur Quelle:
year:1998
Angaben zur Quelle:
number:4
Angaben zur Quelle:
pages:439-458
DDC:
302
Keywords:
Massenmedien
;
Wirkung
;
Politik
;
Kommunikation
;
Politische Wissenschaft
;
Medienforschung
;
Kommunikationsforschung
;
Forschung
;
Interdisziplinarität
;
Politische Kultur
;
Frankreich
Abstract:
The study of the relationship between media and politics has long been marginal in French political science. The take-off of research has been stimulated by the impact of the Presidential election under the Fifth republic and by the increasing role of television and spin-doctors in this new electoral context. If French studies on political communication converge with international research, they are also characterised by strong peculiarities. The material of case-studies is not campaign-centred, but gives room to various TV programmes, to a wide range of media uses by French politicians. The contribution of historians, the influence of a literary tradition of 'textual' analysis of political speech are important. The publishing of books on this topic also reveals a surprisingly intense participation from spin-doctors, journalists and even politicians. Three main 'schools' are contributing to the dynamics of French research. Linked to the tradition of semiological and literary studies the first one focuses on the study of political discourse in the media. Merging the legacy of English-speaking studies and the French tradition of electoral studies a second one develops an analysis of the campaigning process and of its effects. More recently, a new generation of researchers has widened the object of research to the complex network of relations between politicians, journalists and consultant. Linking sucessfully the most recent developments or international research and the peculiarities of academic tradition, research on political communication appears as one of the most dynamic areas of French political science. (European Journal of Political Research / FUB)
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