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9 - Media politics

from Part II - Politics in Everyday Australian Life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Rodney Smith
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
Ariadne Vromen
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
Ian Cook
Affiliation:
Murdoch University, Western Australia
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Summary

The importance of the role of the media in Australian politics is unquestioned. The media play a crucial role in informing participants in democratic processes, so this chapter has a strong relationship with Chapter 1. The media affect political behaviour (Chapter 3); they are also sometimes taken to be a political institution, reflecting debates about the ways in which political institutions are understood in Chapter 2. Even if they are not considered in this way, the media certainly constitute a site in which dominant discourses are produced or reproduced (see Chapter 5). Their role as an important part of the political process must also be viewed in light of their reproduction or support for the social structures that are critiqued in critical theories (see Chapter 4). The role of media organisations as non-state actors in international politics – representing the world to Australia and Australia to the world – can be understood through the international relations theories discussed in Chapter 6.

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Contemporary Politics in Australia
Theories, Practices and Issues
, pp. 94 - 105
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2012

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References

Cunningham, S Turner, G 2007 The media and communications in Australia Allen & Unwin Sydney
Denemark, D Ward, I Bean, C 2007 Election campaigns and television news coverage: the case of the 2001 Australian election Australian Journal of Political Science 89 Google Scholar
Young, S 2007 Government communication in Australia Cambridge University Press Melbourne

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