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This article examines the relationship between media & the partisan ministerial staff of the Government Office. The main objective of the article is to make a contribution to the knowledge about & comprehension of how medialization has affected the work of the partisan ministerial staff. The article is empirically based on four focus groups, with respectively ministers, secretaries of state, political advisors & press secretaries working under the third Persson government (2002-2006). The article demonstrates that media management is an area that The Government Office was not originally adapted for. Therefore media & communication do not enter into the existing routines & formal decision-making processes of the organization. As a result, media challenge both the process behind the government's collective decision-making & the up-holding of the impression that the government decides collectively. Thus, there is a need for complementary routines for the contacts between the partisan staff & the civil servants. Adapted from the source document.

During its 24 years of existence, the Lebanese Hezbollah has developed one of the most complex media machines in the Arab Islamic world. Examining the cognitive and sociological evolution of the four mass media officially affiliated to the movement, this article aims to reconstruct the social history of the party, focusing on the development of its action directories and its territorial inscription but also on the tensions inherent in its dual nature as both a confessional and transnational organisation. Adapted from the source document.

By affecting conceptualizations of crime, media depictions of crime play a crucial part in the way criminal policy is shaped. An analysis of Swedish newspaper articles suggest that crime today is depicted in a more exclusionary way than a few decades ago. This is particularly true for the culprit, whose actions are accounted for in an individualized way. Crime victims are described in a manner that invites identification. During the 1980s, media depictions change from structural accounts of the crime to individualized accounts of the culprit and the criminal deed, often in terms of the psychology of the culprit However, it is not until around 1990 that the media depiction of the crime victim change, with fairly neutral descriptions being replaced by more detailed and personal images. In contemporary media stories, crime and criminality are seen as external threats to society. The culprit is depicted as an intruder, and often also as disordered or irrational. The victim, on the other hand, is depicted as a human being just as you and I, with a particular personality. The consumer of these media stories is primarily encouraged to identify with the victim and those close to him or her. Adapted from the source document.

Regarding French political life, the term "presidentiable" usually refers to a potential presidential candidate with real chances to succeed; there is no juridical definition of it. A would-be president is one who is said to be one. The labeling inevitably involves the media. On the one hand, it is on the media scene that the would-be president assumes the role he covets & receives his peers' acknowledgement; on the other hand, journalists are not only the mirror of political life, they are also the actors of the labeling & the notion of "presidentiable" is partly constructed by them. Nevertheless, this power is not to be overrated: media recognize more than they create the would-be presidents; traditional political resources, such as political parties or government experience, must not be neglected. Adapted from the source document.

Literature and cinema are two distinct languages, irreducible. Their grammar, their vocabulary, syntax are radically different. Any image, let alone any series of images is necessarily, inevitably, "infidel" in text. In his film The Trial Orson Welles has appropriated the Kafka novel The Trial -- to recreate in his own words. The novel does not express a political message or doctrinaire, but rather a certain state of mind anti-authoritarian. We find, in another form, and other aesthetic means, this same spirit in the film. Adapted from the source document.

How political scientists appear in different media & how these appearances may result in distorted information is analyzed. Scientists may present their research, comment on ongoing political issues, or lift up particular issues to public debate. Adapted from the source document.

On May 29, 2005, the European Constitution Treaty submitted by referendum had been rejected by a majority of French voters. What does this opposition to the project of a European Constitution mean? How can it be explained? As after each vote, the interpretation of the results raises symbolic struggles amongst politicians, journalists, & experts. This research paper aims at analyzing the media coverage of this "no" vote, especially through the study of leading columns. It deals with ideological strategies as well as structural logics. It reflects on the impact of mass media on the public sphere. Adapted from the source document.

The professional communicators inside the Swedish Government Office are today 140 (compared to a single one 40 years ago & just twenty 15 years ago), giving support to the idea that the media now has a major impact on everyday business inside the Government. This article shows that this partly true, as the media mainly have an effect on the politicians, the partisan ministerial staff & the communicators. But the relationship between the Government Offices & the media could also be turned around. The Government have resources for external communication no lesser than an international news agency's, & does oil a daily basis deliver an impressive amount of press releases & conferences -- and information leaks -- that the media has to handle. This article examines & analyses how the Swedish Government Offices, through new posts, units & strategies, has institutionalized & centralized its' media contacts during the last 40 years, as well as the reasons & the internal consequences of this development. Adapted from the source document.