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Political communication in a high-choice media environment: a challenge for democracy?
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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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- Authors
- Van Aelst, P., Strömbäck, J., Aalberg, T., Esser, F., de Vreese, C., Matthes, J., Hopmann, D., Salgado, S., Hubé, N., Stępińska, A., Papathanassopoulos, S., Berganza, R., Legnante, G., Reinemann, C., Sheafer, T., & Stanyer, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Gothenburg (SE)
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
- University of Zurich (CH)
- University of Amsterdam (NL)
- University of Vienna (AT)
- University of Southern Denmark (DK)
- University of Lisbon (PT)
- Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (FR)
- Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (PL)
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR)
- Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (ES)
- University of Pavia (IT)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
- Loughborough University (GB)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Annals of the International Communication Association
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2017-01-02
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 3-27
- ISSN
- 2380-8977 (ISSN-L)
- 2380-8985
- OpenAlex
- W2563852632
- Cited by
- 974
- References
- 210
- Citations by year
- 2026: 94 · 2025: 124 · 2024: 123 · 2023: 125 · 2022: 143 · 2021: 132 · 2020: 104 · 2019: 79 · 2018: 39 · 2017: 11
- FWCI
- 148.25
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Communication › News Media Framing and Political Communication
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Media Influence and Politics
- Social Sciences › Communication › Social Media and Politics
- Keywords
- political communication, political information environment, democracy, political knowledge, news quality, media concentration, news diversity, media fragmentation, political polarization, relativism, citizen information
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