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"This chapter focuses on the challenges faced by political actors when communicating with their audiences. It is argued that communicative skills are of increasing importance due to the mediatization of politics and the increased centrality of media logic. Furthermore, the chapter reflects on the personalization of politics that is closely linked to mediatization and that has broad implications for political institutions, citizen behavior, and the role of political actors as communicators. In particular, personalization increases the importance of personal resources, the communication skills of political actors, and specifically charismatic communication and rhetorical skills. The authors discuss in detail research regarding those skills and suggest that charismatic communication and rhetorical skills should both be important in future study of political actors as communicators." (publisher's description)

"This chapter provides a history of the media as political actors and identifies key principles that have shaped their role in both democratic and authoritarian polities (i.e., information, interpretation, participation, critical scrutiny). In addition, the chapter explores recent trends impacting on the performance of that role, such as the emergence of the Internet and, as a consequence of that process, a globalized public sphere of transnational news media outlets. It is argued that to make the Internet truly valuable as a political resource, democratic societies continue to require the work of skilled, professional journalists and their sense making, interpretative functions. Because of that journalists and their organizations remain crucial to the translation of content into meaningful messages." (publisher's description)

The introduction of novel foods and crops into the developing world triggers different reactions from different political actors. Quite often, the patterns of response in developing countries run parallel to policy debates in rich countries, reflecting the close relationships that still can be found between government ministries, companies, and NGOs in rich countries and their subordinate partners in the developing world. In general, the strongest supporters of novel foods and crops will be scientists, agricultural ministries, and the private companies trying to sell the new technology. The strongest skeptics are likely to be NGOs claiming to speak for the poor, as well as environmental ministries. If the novel foods and crops are GMO varieties, the patterns of local support will be much weaker, and the opposition is likely to be broader and significantly stronger. ; Includes bibliographical references

Social media are changing the nature of mass communication, challenging traditional media. They are used as a powerful platform for sharing and spreading of information, activities, promotion of institutions, of certain interest groups and individuals, but also political actors for different purposes. Sharing and spreading of information through possibilities provided by social media enables to mobilize wider audience in different ways. Politicians are using these opportunities, without any need to share information across journalist or traditional media. This paper aims to analyse use of social networks as a mean of sharing of information by Kosovan political actors and content shared. The paper analyses posts of three Kosovo politicians, prime minister Isa Mustafa, president Hashim Thaci and president of Kosovo Assembly Kadri Veseli in their profiles on social networks Facebook and Twitter, over a period of monitoring of fifteen days, during the month of December 2016.

"Modern trade unions act in two arenas: the state and politics on the one hand, and the labour market and collective bargaining on the other. The relative importance of their economic and political activities differs between countries and world regions, as well as historically and between types of unions. So do the way and the extent to which union action in the two arenas is coordinated. The dominant kind of trade union as it emerged from the second postwar settlement after 1945 no longer claimed a right or reserved the option to overthrow the governmnt of the state through a political strike. In this they paid tribute to the superior legitimacy of free elections as compared to 'direct action' of the organized working class. Today more or less explicit constitutional law makes it illegal for unions - within the limits of usually complex legal rules - to strike in the context of disputes with employers and in pursuit of collective agreements on wages and working conditions." (excerpt)