Journalism and Austerity : Digitization and Crisis During the Greek Memoranda.

Cover -- Journalism and Austerity -- Digital Activism and Society: Politics, Economy AND Culture in Network Communication -- Journalism and Austerity: Digitization and Crisis during the Greek Memoranda -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The Media and the Economic Crisis: A Critical Juncture -- Aims, Objectives and Research Questions -- The Historical Political Background of Greece and the Greek Media -- The Development and Political Economy of the Greek Press -- Research Design and Methodology -- Data Analysis Methodologies -- Data Analysis and Triangulation -- Overview of the Book -- 2. Framing and Power Influences of the Media: A Multi-level Political Economy Approach -- Framing as a Lakatosian Research Program: Employing Framing Theory to Probe News Production -- Entman Explains What the Process of Framing Precisely Entails: -- Frames in Culture: How Are They Applied in News Production and What is Their Political Impact? -- Framing and Media Production: Frame Building and the Social Forces That Influence It -- Defining Political Economy -- The Macro Level of Power Influence: Media Systems, Market and Ownership Structures -- The Meso Level of Power Influence: Mediating Structural Power through Labour -- The Micro Level of Power Influence: The Impact of Structural Power on Daily Journalistic Practice -- Theoretical Framework: Combining the Framing and Political Economy Literatures -- Employing Political Economy to Explain the Frame Building Process -- Shedding Light on Political Economic Structures through Frame Analysis -- Making Sense of Framing Struggles: Setting Limits to Democratic Debate -- 3. When Politicians Lead the Tango: The Impact of the Crisis and New Technologies on Journalistic Practices and Frame Building -- The Impact of the Economic Crisis.

Labour Intensification through Digitalization -- Shaping the Structure of Frames: The Influence of Political Sources -- Setting the Terms of the Debate in 2010 -- Reproduction of political frames in 2011/12 -- Reproduction of Political Frames in 2015 -- Summary -- 4. Issues of Journalistic Freedom: The Impact of the Organizational Structure and Editorial Stance on Frame Building -- The Impact of the Organizational Structure on Journalistic Practices -- The Influence of the Newspaper's Structure on Frame Building -- Building News Frames and Altering Advocate Frames in 2010 -- Building News Frames and Altering Advocate Frames in 2011/2012 -- Building News Frames and Altering Advocate Frames in 2015 -- Summary -- 5. Setting Limits to the Debate: The Interaction between the Structures of Politics, the Economy and the Press -- Political Parallelism in the Greek Media -- Framing the Debate Around the Memoranda -- Setting Limits to the Debate in 2010 -- Setting Limits to the Debate in 2011/2012 -- Setting Limits to the Debate in 2015 -- Summary -- 6. Conclusion: Framing and Political Economy as Complementary Approaches -- The Contribution of Political Economy to Explanations of the Frame Building Process -- Contributions of Framing Theory to Political Economic Structures and Processes -- Framing the Debate Around the Greek Memoranda -- Limitations and Future Directions -- References -- Index.

Using an original empirical study of the frame building process in the press, this book analyses the interplay between political economy and framing theories, focusing on what the frames found in the press can reveal about structural power struggles, and the contribution of journalism to democratic debate.

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