Annals of the International Communication Association· 2017Q1
Political communication in a high-choice media environment: a challenge for democracy?
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Political communication research highlights six key concerns in advanced democracies that threaten citizens' ability to become informed: declining news supply and quality, media concentration, increasing fragmentation and polarization, rising relativism, and growing inequality in political knowledge.
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Key points
- Declining supply of political information.
- Decreasing quality of news content.
- Increasing media concentration and reduced news diversity.
- Growing fragmentation and polarization of the media landscape.
- Rising relativism and increasing inequality in political knowledge.
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Abstract
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.
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