The Dynamics of Resistance and Response to Mediatization in Government: Whitehall Press Officers Caught in the “Cross-Field” Since 1997

Ruth Garland

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-62983-4_8

The Dynamics of Resistance and Response to Mediatization in Government: Whitehall Press Officers Caught in the “Cross-Field” Since 1997

Ruth Garland

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Abstract

This examination of mediatization in government asks how media change impacts on central bureaucracies, and specifically on power asymmetries between the party political and administrative arms of government. This chapter examines the dynamics of mediatization in the organization and operation of government media engagement, focusing on the period after the Labour victory of 1997, and looking at the everyday practices, norms and values of UK government press officers. Using data from interviews and documentary analysis, this chapter argues that the media and political responses to 24/7 news from the late 1980s onwards, led to an intensification of the relationship between media and political elites which excluded the public and presented serious challenges for the stated democratic purposes of government. communications.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Dynamics of Mediatization
Subtitle of host publication	Institutional Change and Everyday Transformations in a Digital Age
Editors	Olivier Driessens, Goran Bolin, Andreas Hepp, Stig Hjarvard
Place of Publication	Basingstoke
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Chapter	7
Pages	155
Number of pages	175
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-62983-4
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-62982-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62983-4_8
Publication status	Published - 4 Dec 2017

Keywords

Mediation, Political Communication, Government

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Garland, R. (2017). The Dynamics of Resistance and Response to Mediatization in Government: Whitehall Press Officers Caught in the “Cross-Field” Since 1997. In O. Driessens, G. Bolin, A. Hepp, & S. Hjarvard (Eds.), The Dynamics of Mediatization: Institutional Change and Everyday Transformations in a Digital Age (pp. 155). Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62983-4_8

Garland, Ruth. / The Dynamics of Resistance and Response to Mediatization in Government : Whitehall Press Officers Caught in the “Cross-Field” Since 1997. The Dynamics of Mediatization: Institutional Change and Everyday Transformations in a Digital Age. editor / Olivier Driessens ; Goran Bolin ; Andreas Hepp ; Stig Hjarvard. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2017. pp. 155

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The Dynamics of Mediatization: Institutional Change and Everyday Transformations in a Digital Age. ed. / Olivier Driessens; Goran Bolin; Andreas Hepp; Stig Hjarvard. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2017. p. 155.

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Garland R. The Dynamics of Resistance and Response to Mediatization in Government: Whitehall Press Officers Caught in the “Cross-Field” Since 1997. In Driessens O, Bolin G, Hepp A, Hjarvard S, editors, The Dynamics of Mediatization: Institutional Change and Everyday Transformations in a Digital Age. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2017. p. 155 doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-62983-4_8

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