On media monitoring – the Media for Democracy Monitor (MDM)
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Josef Trappel
Abstract
Do the mass media deliver what contemporary democracies require? This fundamental research question has been discussed for many decades and the body of literature is firmly rooted in the debate following from the Hutchins Commission 1947. In more recent years, monitoring of the relations between democracy and the mass media has concentrated on new or democracies in transition. Fewer monitoring efforts have been undertaken in mature democracies. The following text develops a social science based monitoring instrument for established democracies, the Media for Democracy Monitor (MDM). It has been developed at the University of Zurich and tested in five European countries (Germany, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Portugal, and Switzerland).
© 2009 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, D-10785 Berlin
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Revisiting journalism as a profession in the 19th century: Empirical findings on women journalists in Central Europe
- News for adolescents: Mission impossible? An evaluation of Flemish television news aimed at teenagers
- Politics in the news: Do campaigns matter? A comparison of political news during election periods and routine periods in Flanders (Belgium)
- On media monitoring – the Media for Democracy Monitor (MDM)
- The Media for Democracy Monitor applied to five countries: A selection of indicators and their measurement
- Legal framework for media and democracy
- Book reviews
