Whither Mass Media and Power? Evidence for a Critical Elite Theory Alternative
Whither Mass Media and Power? Evidence for a Critical Elite Theory Alternative
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大众传媒和权力何去何从？
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2003
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Aeron Davis
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Aeron Davis
本文认为，媒体研究的批判性研究需要更多地关注媒体和文化在精英决策中所扮演的角色。它认为大众媒体/大众影响范式本身不再足以解释传播在维持社会不平等权力关系中的效用。相反，这里提供的证据表明，新闻媒体的一个主要功能是充当精英在日常冲突和谈判中的沟通论坛。由于精英是新闻文本的来源、目标和主要接收者，精英之间的沟通，而不是精英大众之间的沟通，似乎成为政治进程的一个关键特征。这些调查结果基于对英国政治和企业新闻来源以及资深记者的 98 次半结构化采访。
This article makes the case that critical research in media studies needs to devote more attention to the part played by media and culture in elite decision-making. It argues that the mass media/mass influence paradigm is, of itself, no longer adequate to explain the utility of communications in the sustenance of unequal power relations in society. Instead, evidence presented here observes that a major function of news media is to act as a communications forum for elites in their daily conflicts and negotiations. With elites acting as sources, targets and major recipients of news texts, inter-elite, rather than elite-mass, communications seems to be a key feature of the political process. These findings are based on a series of 98 semi-structured interviews with political and corporate news sources, and senior journalists in the UK.