In order to better understand how the world viewed the US 2016 presidential election, the issues that mattered around the world, and how nations made sense of how their media systems constructed presentations of the presidential election, Robert S. Hinck, Skye C. Cooley, and Randolph Kluver examine global news narratives during the campaign and immediately afterwards.
Analyzing 1,578 news stories from 62 sources within three regional media ecologies in China, Russia, and the Middle East, Hinck, Cooley and Kluver demonstrate how the US election was incorporated into narrative constructions of the global order. They establish that how the narratives told about the US election through national and regional media provides insight into how foreign nations construct US democracy, and reflect local understandings regarding the issues, and impacts, of US policy towards those nations.
Avoiding jargon-laden prose, Global Media and Strategic Narratives of Contested Democracy is as accessible as it is wide-ranging. Its empirical detail will expand readers' understanding of soft power as narrative articulations of foreign nation's policies, values, and beliefs within localized media systems. Communication/media studies students as well as political scientists whose studies includes media and global politics will welcome its publication.
- ISBN13 9780415015837
- Publish Date 31 July 2019 (first published 13 June 2019)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 20 August 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Format eBook
- Pages 176
- Language English