Media and Politics Around the World

Media and Politics Around the World: Global Media Models provides a framework for students as well as instructors to understand how diverse media are, and how politic and media affect one another. Including new models that provide a clear analytical tool for students to see how politics and media work in the world today, this textbook characterizes almost 100 countries and compares their media systems. Focusing on a wide variety of countries and regions, including non-western and non-democratic countries in Africa, Asia, and South America, each chapter explores an important factor in comparative politics and media, including the meaning and difference between ’developing’ and 'developed’ countries when it comes to politics, the definition of media-systems and the purposes media serve, and how media and democracy interact or threaten one another. Case studies demonstrate how models can be applied to multiple regions worldwide, illustrating the similarities and differences of their media-systems and politics. With extra case studies and ancillary materials online, Media and Politics Around the World is designed for students studying Media and Politics as part of wider Media Studies and Political Sciences courses. Thoroughly interdisciplinary in scope and comprehensive in content, this textbook provides the perfect comparative overview of global media and political systems worldwide.