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This chapter presents a multidimensional framework for research into the mediatization of politics. We propose to study the mediatization of politics as a transformation process that is not limited to mutual relations between media and politics but also includes the audience and market institutions. Such a conceptual rebuilding captures the process of mediatization of politics on three social levels: (1) on a macro level, the mediatization is interrelated with other meta-processes, such as marketization and acculturation; (2) meso level grasps an institutional process where games of powers and flows of logics between political, media, social and cultural institutions take place; (3) micro level describes the politics-related media practices of society. This framework is presented on a case study of the Committee for the Defence of Democracy social movement.
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Brodzińska-Mirowska, B., Wojtkowski, Ł. (2017). Is There Any Future for Research on the Mediatization of Politics?. In: Driessens, O., Bolin, G., Hepp, A., Hjarvard, S. (eds) Dynamics Of Mediatization. Transforming Communications – Studies in Cross-Media Research. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62983-4_7
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