TY - JOUR
T1 - Political Communication in a High-Choice Media Environment
T2 - A Challenge for Democracy?
AU - Van Aelst, Peter
AU - Strömback, Jesper
AU - Aalberg, Toril
AU - Esser, Frank
AU - de Vreese, Claes
AU - Matthes, Jörg
AU - Hopmann, David Nicolas
AU - Salgado, Susana
AU - Hubé, Nicolas
AU - Stępińska, Agnieszka
AU - Papathanassopoulos, Stylianos
AU - Berganza, Rosa
AU - Legnante, Guido
AU - Reinemann, Carsten
AU - Sheafer, Tamir
AU - Stanyer, James
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - During the last decennia media environments and political communication systems have changed fundamentally. These changes have major ramifications for the political information environments and the extent to which they aid people in becoming informed citizens. Against this background, the purpose of this article is to review research on key changes and trends in political information environments and assess their democratic implications. We will focus on advanced postindustrial democracies and six concerns that are all closely linked to the dissemination and acquisition of political knowledge: (1) declining supply of political information, (2) declining quality of news, (3) increasing media concentration and declining diversity of news, (4) increasing fragmentation and polarization, (5) increasing relativism and (6) increasing inequality in political knowledge.
AB - During the last decennia media environments and political communication systems have changed fundamentally. These changes have major ramifications for the political information environments and the extent to which they aid people in becoming informed citizens. Against this background, the purpose of this article is to review research on key changes and trends in political information environments and assess their democratic implications. We will focus on advanced postindustrial democracies and six concerns that are all closely linked to the dissemination and acquisition of political knowledge: (1) declining supply of political information, (2) declining quality of news, (3) increasing media concentration and declining diversity of news, (4) increasing fragmentation and polarization, (5) increasing relativism and (6) increasing inequality in political knowledge.
U2 - 10.1080/23808985.2017.1288551
DO - 10.1080/23808985.2017.1288551
M3 - Journal article
SN - 2380-8977
VL - 41
SP - 3
EP - 27
JO - Annals of the International Communication Association
JF - Annals of the International Communication Association
IS - 1
ER -