Anthology
Lithuania : Media-politics interaction shaped by benefits-oriented reasoning
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Author list: Malling, Milda
Publisher: Nordicom, University of Gothenburg
Place: Gothenburg
Publication year: 2019
Book title (if part of a book): Close and Distant : Political Executive–Media Relations in Four Countries
Start page: 55
End page: 74
Number of pages: 20
ISBN: 978-91-88855-06-0;978-91-88855-07-7
Abstract
This chapter discusses how media and political information sources navigate change and adjust their needs-oriented behaviour to changing conditions. The results presented are based on 20 qualitative interviews with leading political journalists as well as government advisors and spokespersons in Lithuania. Although media and political sources gain power in different situations, both sides function in reciprocal interconnectedness. Formal contacts are quite consistent and professionalised, but they continue to work in the shadow of informal social networks, which create their own power relationships, dynamics and hierarchical structures. Though the findings are contextually fashioned, the views regarding the interaction indicate broader trends of communication professionalisation identified also in other cultures and political conditions.
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