Media Systems and the Political Information Environment: A Cross-National Comparison
Media Systems and the Political Information Environment: A Cross-National Comparison
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DOI：
10.1177/1940161210367422
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发表时间：
2010-07-01
影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Curran, James
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作者：
Aalberg, Toril;van Aelst, Peter;Curran, James
为了表达态度并根据自身利益采取行动，公民需要有关时事的相关最新信息。但媒体市场商业化程度的提高是增加还是减少了政治信息的流动呢？哈林和曼奇尼强调，现有的经验证据是支离破碎的，因此这个问题很难回答。在这篇文章中，作者提供了新的数据，使他们能够系统地研究三十年来电视上政治信息的流动是如何在六个西方国家发生的。作者发现，政治信息通过电视的流动根据商业化程度的不同而有所不同。在最商业化的电视系统和商业电视频道中，新闻和时事的流量是最低的。然而，即使在相似的媒体系统内，也存在重要的跨国差异。作者的数据并没有表明在电视政治信息环境方面向自由主义制度靠拢。相反，令他们震惊的是一些欧洲国家强烈抵制将民主需求置于盈利之上。
To express attitudes and act according to their self-interest, citizens need relevant, up-to-date information about current affairs. But has the increased commercialization in the media market increased or decreased the flow of political information? Hallin and Mancini stress that the existing empirical evidence is fragmented and that this question therefore has been difficult to answer. In this article the authors present new data that allow them to systematically examine how the flow of political information on TV occurs across six Western countries during a thirty-year period. The authors find that the flow of political information through TV varies according to the degree of commercialization. The flow of news and current affairs is lowest in the most commercially oriented television system and among the commercial TV channels. There is however important cross-national variation even within similar media systems. The authors' data do not suggest a convergence toward the liberal system when it comes to the political information environment on TV. Rather, what strikes them is how strongly resistant some European countries have been to subordinating the needs of democracy to profit making.