TY - BOOK
T1 - Media, Communication and the Struggle for Democratic Change
T2 - Case Studies on Contested Transitions
AU - Voltmer, Katrin
AU - Christensen, Christian
AU - Neverla, Irene
AU - Stremlau, Nicole
AU - Thomass, Barbara
AU - Vladisavljević, Nebojša
AU - Wasserman, Herman
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - This book investigates the role of media and communication in processes of democratization in different political and cultural contexts. Struggles for democratic change are periods of intense contest over the transformation of citizenship and the reconfiguration of political power. These democratization conflicts are played out within an increasingly complex media ecology where traditional modes of communication merge with new digital networks, thus bringing about multiple platforms for journalists and political actors to promote and contest competing definitions of reality. The volume draws on extensive case study research in South Africa, Kenya, Egypt and Serbia to highlight the ambivalent role of the media as force for democratic change, citizen empowerment, and accountability, as well as driver of polarization, radicalization and manipulation.
AB - This book investigates the role of media and communication in processes of democratization in different political and cultural contexts. Struggles for democratic change are periods of intense contest over the transformation of citizenship and the reconfiguration of political power. These democratization conflicts are played out within an increasingly complex media ecology where traditional modes of communication merge with new digital networks, thus bringing about multiple platforms for journalists and political actors to promote and contest competing definitions of reality. The volume draws on extensive case study research in South Africa, Kenya, Egypt and Serbia to highlight the ambivalent role of the media as force for democratic change, citizen empowerment, and accountability, as well as driver of polarization, radicalization and manipulation.
KW - Communist media
KW - Democratization
KW - Online platforms
KW - Post-communist media
KW - Post-transitional conflict
KW - Regime transformation
KW - Traditional media
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85148792235&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-16748-6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-16748-6
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:85148792235
SN - 9783030167479
BT - Media, Communication and the Struggle for Democratic Change
PB - Springer International Publishing
ER -
