Detritus

Tentative set reading list for this semester - “Journalism and the Political Process.”

Weeks 1 - Introduction - no readings. 

Bennett, W. Lance. “The Press, Power and Public Accountability”. In Stuart Allan (ed) The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism. London: Routledge.

McNair, Brian. (2000) “Journalism and Democracy: The Debate.” In Journalism and Democracy: An Evaluation of the Political Public Sphere. London: Routledge.

Jones, Alex S. (2009) “The Media and Democracy” in Losing the News. Oxford: OUP. 

Tiffen, R. (2008) ‘Australia: Gladiatorial Parties and Volatile Media in a Stable Polity’ in Stromback, J. and Kaid, L. (eds) The Handbook of Election News Coverage Around the World, London: Routledge, pp.109-23.

Beecher, Eric (2011) ‘Beecher: Media Inquiry has mandate to address problems” Crikey 16th September 2011  http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/16/beecher-media-inquiry-has-mandate-to-address-problems/

Weeks 4 and 5 – IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JOURNALISTS AND POLITICIANS COLLABORATIVE OR ADVERSARIAL?

 Graber, Doris. (2009) “The struggle for control: News from the presidency and congress.” In Mass Media and Democracy. Congressional Quarterly.

Megalogenis, George (2011) “Unprincipled politicians – and the press – shown the door by disillusioned public. The Australian, December 31, 2011. URL: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opinion/unprincipled-politicians-and-the-press-shown-the-door-by-disillusioned-public/story-e6frgd0x-1226233564021 

Sabato, Larry (1993) “Inquisition American Style: Attack Journalism and Feeding Frenzies.” In Feeding Frenzy: How Attack Journalism has Transformed American Politics. New York: Free Press.

Stanyer, James (2007) “Introduction: Actors, Systems and Systemic Trends.” In Modern Political Communication: Mediated Politics in Uncertain Times. Cambridge: Polity.

Tanner, Lindsay (2011) “Politicians fight back” In Sideshow: Dumbing Down Democracy. Melbourne: Scribe.

Weeks 6 and 7 – DO JOURNALISTS SHAPE THE WAY THAT THE PUBLIC THINKS ABOUT POLITICS?

Entman, Robert M. “Framing Bias: Media in the Distribution of Power” Journal of Communication 57.1 

Weaver, David,  Maxwell McCombs, and Donald L. Shaw (2004) “Agenda-Setting Research: Issues, Attributes, and Influences”. In Lynda Lee Kaid (ed) Handbook of Political Communication Research.

Vallone, Robert P.;Lee Ross; Mark R. Lepper “The hostile media phenomenon: Biased perception and perceptions of media bias in coverage of the Beirut massacre.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 49(3), Sep 1985, 577-585.

 Media Watch “Gunning for the Greens” ABC Online URL http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s3010433.htm

WEEK 8 – STUDY WEEK.

Weeks 9 AND 10 – DOES POLITICAL JOURNALISM REPRESENT THE PUBLIC INTEREST?

McChesney, Robert (2000) “The US Media at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century.” In Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times.

Neighbour, Sally (2011) “The United States of Chris Mitchell”. The Monthly URL: http://www.themonthly.com.au/power-rupert-murdoch-and-australian-s-editor-chief-united-states-chris-mitchell-sally-neighbour-3589

Rothwell, Nicholas (2011) “A Mirror to the Nation at large”. The Australian, September 17^th. URL: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/a-mirror-to-the-nation-at-large/story-fn59niix-1226138622228

Schudson, Michael (2008) “Why democracies need an unlovable press”, in Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press. London: Polity.

Weeks 11 and 12 – DOES POLITICAL JOURNALISM ILLUMINATE OR OBSCURE THE POLITICAL PROCESS

Coleman, Stephen (2011) Representation and Mediated Politics: Representing Representation in an Age of Irony. in Kees Brants and Katrin Volmer (ads) Political Communication and Postmodern Democracy.

Didion, Joan (1988) “Insider Baseball” The New Yorker URL http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1988/oct/27/insider-baseball/?pagination=false

Hastings, Michael “Hack: Confessions of a Presidential Campaign Reporter.” GQ October 2008 http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/200810/michael-hastings-newsweek-presidential-campaign?printable=true

Norris, Pippa (2001) “Cares Less? Cynical Media, Cynical Public?” in A Virtuous Circle: Political Communications in Postindustrial Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 Weeks 13 and 14  - IS THE INTERNET MAKING POLITICAL JOURNALISM OBSOLETE?

Alterman, Eric (2008) Out of print: The death and life of the american newspaper. The New Yorker URL: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/31/080331fa_fact_alterman?currentPage=all

Flew, Terry and Wilson, Jason. (2010) Journalism as social networking: The Australian youdecide project and the 2007 federal election. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism 11.2.

Hermida, Alfred (2010). “Twittering the news: The emergence of ambient journalism.” Journalism Practice,  4 (3), 297-308.

Simon, David (2009) Testimony at the Future of Journalism Hearings. Real Clear Politics URL: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/05/09/david_simon_testimony_at_the_future_of_journalism_hearing_96415.html