Power and the News Media - Discourse in Society

1 Power and the News Media Teun A. van Dijk University of Amsterdam _____ INTRODUCTION In the study of mass communication, there has been a continuous debate about the more or less powerful effects of the Media on the Instead of reviewing these positions and their empirical claims, this chapter examines in more general terms some properties of the social Power of the news Media . This Power is not restricted to the influence of the Media on their audiences, but also involves the role of the Media within the broader framework of the social, cultural, political, or eco-nomic Power structures of Society . In order to focus this discussion bet-ter, I limit it to the news Media , and in particular to the press, thus ignoring the undoubtedly pivotal role of television and other Media gen-res in mass Political Communication in Action 10 The theoretical framework for this inquiry is articulated within the multidisciplinary field of Discourse analysis , a domain of study in the humanities and social sciences that systematically examines the structures and functions of text and talk in their soci

the multidisciplinary field of discourse analysis, a domain of study in the humanities and social sciences that systematically examines the structures and functions of text and talk in their social, political, and cul-tural contexts.3 Applied to the study of mass communication, this

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