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The study of various types of programming is essential for critical analysis of the media and also offers revealing perspectives on scoiety's cultural values, preoccupations, behavior, and myths. This handbook provides a systematic, in-depth approach to the study of media genres--including reality programs, game shows, situation comedies, soap operas, film noir, news programs, and more.

Influence of politics on media, corruption of media and stereotypes related to the social minorities are, according to the authors, the most significant problems of the 21st-century Slovak media. This book explains why the existence of public media is important and why alternative media fail to inform truthfully, impartially and objectively.

This fully-updated new edition of Politics and the Mass Media provides a comprehensive introduction to the role of mass communications in politics at all levels, from election campaigns, news reports and lobbying groups to the media activities of pressure groups.The relationship between politics, politicians and the media is a matter of increasingly contentious debate, as politicians' awareness of the importance of the media becomes more sophisticated amidst rapidly-advancing media technology and control.Providing a review of the nature and content of political communications and of recent the

Introduction / Arja Rosenholm, Kaarle Nordenstreng, Elena Trubina -- Mapping the media landscape. Contemporary structure of the Russian media industry / Elena Vartanov, Sergei Smirnov -- Changing media use in Russia / Jukka Pietilainen, Irina Fomicheva, Ludmila Resnianskaia -- A new generation of journalists / Svetlana Pasti -- Biopolitics of the media. "We must all give birth : that's an order" : the Russian mass media commenting on V. V. Putin's address / Arja Rosenholm, Irina Savkina -- Portrayal of health policy in Russian newspapers / Marina Bondarik -- Eastern cowboys : masculine selves and coping with stressful life in the Russian edition of Men's health magazine / Ilkka Pietila -- In search of a "new (wo)man" : gender and sexuality in contemporary Russian self-help literature / Suvi Salmenniemi -- Media as the arbiters of style. "Family-- that's an opera" : creativity and family representations in Russian women's magazine Krestianka / Saara Ratilainen -- Modern Russian entertainment TV : "live well now, ask me how" / Natalia Mikhailova -- Russian glamour and its representations in post-Soviet mass media / Maria Litovskaia, Olga Shaburova -- Between a good home and a good city : the privatization of residential life in Russian lifestyle journalism / Elena Trubina.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Representing Politics -- 1 Political Bias -- Why does bias matter? -- Defining bias -- Types of bias -- The Bad News studies -- Manufacturing Consent -- Critiques of bias research -- Constructing reality? -- Conclusion -- 2 Telling Tales: The Reporting of Politics -- Frames versus biases -- Producing news -- Genres and political coverage -- Telling political stories -- We the people -- Explaining political stories -- Conclusion -- 3 It's Just for Fun: Politics and Entertainment -- Political satire: politics as deluded and corrupt -- Politics as conspiracy -- Entertainment as propaganda -- The politics of identity: from soap opera to sport -- Conclusion -- 4 Media Effects -- Seeing is believing? -- Under the influence? -- Press and voting behaviour -- Television and voting behaviour -- Influence beyond the ballot box -- Elite effects -- Media consumption in context -- Conclusion -- Part II: The Political Economy of Mass Media -- 5 State Control and State Propaganda -- Systems of control -- Censorship -- Secrecy -- Propaganda -- Regulation -- Comparing media systems -- Conclusion -- 6 Conglomerate Control: Media Moguls and Media Power -- Media empires -- Ownership and control -- The power of Rupert Murdoch -- Readers and viewers -- Advertisers -- Reconsidering media power -- Conclusion -- 7 Watchdogs or Lapdogs? The Politics of Journalism -- The power of the spin doctor? -- The rise of churnalism -- Investigative journalism and the 'dumbing down' of news -- Models of journalism -- Conclusion -- 8 Dream Worlds: Globalization and the Webs of Power -- Global players -- A history of the future -- Globalization or internationalization? -- Conglomerates, governments and identities -- Conclusion -- Part III: Mass Media and Democracy.

The study of various types of programming is essential for critical analysis of the media and also offers revealing perspectives on society's cultural values, preoccupations, behavior, and myths. This handbook provides a systematic, in-depth approach to the study of media genres - including reality programs, game shows, situation comedies, soap operas, film noir, news programs, and more. The author addresses such questions as: Have there been shifts in the formula of particular genres over time? What do these shifts reveal about changes in culture? How and why do new genres - such as reality T