Mass media

Book of Mass Media and Political Communication in New Democracies, a group of authors, Arab Organization for Translation. The book covers a wide range of political and cultural situations between Eastern and Southern Europe and Latin America reaching Asia and Africa. This book focuses on the problems and conflicts arising in the context of establishing an independent and competitive media policy in post-autocratic societies. It addresses in its chapters, the changing perceptions of media roles and the quality of media outlets, the reasons and consequences of the intensification of media use by political actors, the role of media in election campaigns, and how citizens interpret political messages and the extent to which media influences political attitudes and voting behavior.