Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China

360 Pages·2012·4.067 MB·English

by  Professor Daniela Stockmann

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MediaCommercializationandAuthoritarianRuleinChina
Inmostliberaldemocracies,commercializedmediaistakenforgranted,
but in many authoritarian regimes, the introduction of market forces
in the media represents a radical break from the past, with uncer-
tainpoliticalandsocialimplications.InMediaCommercializationand
AuthoritarianRuleinChina,DanielaStockmannarguesthatthecon-
sequences of media marketization depend on the institutional design
of the state. In one-party regimes such as China, market-based media
promoteregimestabilityratherthandestabilizingauthoritarianismor
bringingaboutdemocracy.ByanalyzingtheChinesemedia,Stockmann
ties trends of market liberalization in China to other authoritarian
regimesintheMiddleEast,NorthAfrica,Sub-SaharanAfrica,andthe
post-Sovietregion.Drawingonin-depthinterviewswithChinesejour-
nalistsandpropagandaofficialsaswellasmorethan2,000newspaper
articles,experiments,andpublicopiniondatasets,thisbooklinkscen-
sorshipamongjournalistswithpatternsofmediaconsumptionandthe
media’seffectsonpublicopinion.
DanielaStockmannisAssistantProfessorofPoliticalScienceatLeiden
University.Her researchon politicalcommunicationand publicopin-
ion in China has been published in Comparative Political Studies,
PoliticalCommunication,TheChinaQuarterly,andtheChineseJour-
nal of Communication, among others. Her 2006 conferencepaper on
the Chinese media and public opinion received an award in Political
CommunicationfromtheAmericanPoliticalScienceAssociation.

Communication,SocietyandPolitics
Editors
W.LanceBennett,UniversityofWashington
RobertM.Entman,TheGeorgeWashingtonUniversity
EditorialAdvisoryBoard
ScottAlthaus,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign
LarryM.Bartels,VanderbiltUniversity
JayG.Blumler,Emeritus,UniversityofLeeds
MichaelX.DellaCarpini,UniversityofPennsylvania
DorisA.Graber,UniversityofIllinoisatChicago
ReginaLawrence,UniversityofTexasatAustin
PaoloMancini,UniversityofPerugia
PippaNorris,HarvardUniversity
BarbaraPfetsch,FreeUniversity,Berlin
PhilipSchlesinger,UniversityofStirling
GadiWolfsfeld,HebrewUniversityofJerusalem
JohnZaller,UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles
Politicsandrelationsamongindividualsinsocietiesacrosstheworldarebeing
transformed by new technologies for targeting individuals and sophisticated
methods for shaping personalized messages. The new technologies challenge
boundaries of many kinds – between news, information, entertainment, and
advertising;betweenmedia,withthearrivaloftheWorldWideWeb;andeven
betweennations.Communication,SocietyandPoliticsprobesthepoliticaland
social impacts of these new communication systems in national, comparative,
andglobalperspective.
OtherBooksintheSeries
Eva Anduiza, Michael James Jensen, and Laia Jorba, eds., Digital Media and
PoliticalEngagementWorldwide
C.EdwinBaker,MediaConcentrationandDemocracy:WhyOwnershipMat-
ters
C.EdwinBaker,Media,Markets,andDemocracy
W.LanceBennettandRobertM.Entman,eds.,MediatedPolitics:Communi-
cationintheFutureofDemocracy
BruceBimber,InformationandAmericanDemocracy:TechnologyintheEvo-
lutionofPoliticalPower
SerieslistcontinuesfollowingtheIndex.

Media Commercialization and
Authoritarian Rule in China
DANIELA STOCKMANN
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