Media and Politics
Research and Class Material
Publications and Presentations
Sarah Oates
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Introduction to Media and Politics
A textbook for the emerging field of comparative media studies -- you can search inside on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
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Introduction to Media and Politics draws together evidence from the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia and beyond to provide students with an understanding of the relationship between the media and the political sphere. This highly accessible text balances theory with case studies on elections, war, terrorism, and the emerging role of the Internet, enabling the reader to think critically about how the media should work in the service of democracy. It places the study of media and politics in a comparative perspective, allowing the reader to consider how the same media institutions - including commercial and public service broadcasting, paid political advertising, and war coverage - function in different countries. This text is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of media and politics.
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Now in paperback! A comprehensive overview of the central ideas and methods of study of the Internet in the political science literature.
The Internet and Politics: Citizens, Voters and Activists. 2005. Co-edited with Diana Owen and Rachel Gibson. London: Routledge.
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Useful as a central, organising text for academic courses on the Internet
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Provides a comprehensive and readable overview of the central ideas and research methods in Internet studies
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Includes case studies in the United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Ukraine and beyond
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Examines the use of the Internet by terrorist groups
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One of the few books to locate the study of the Internet in the field of political science/comparative politics
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Features writings by some of the most prominent scholars in the burgeoning field of Internet/media studies, including Maura Conway, Rachel Gibson, Wainer Lusoli, Diana Owen, Holli Semetko and Stephen Ward
Paperback:
Hardback: ISBN 041534784X.
Selected publications
Books
Television, Democracy and Elections in Russia (Basees/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies). 2006. London: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 0415381347
Elections and Voters in Post-Communist Russia. Co-edited with Matthew Wyman and Stephen White. London: Edward Elgar. 1998. ISBN 1858987431.
Articles and Book Chapters
Comparing the Politics of Fear: The Role of Terrorism News in Elections Campaigns in Russia, the United States and Britain, 2006. International Relations, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 425-437. Download here: http://www.media-politics.com/oates intl relations dec 06.pdf
A Spiral of Post-Soviet Cynicism: The First Decade of Political Advertising in Russia. 2006. In Lynda Lee Kaid and Christina Holtz-Bacha (eds) Handbook of International Political Advertising. London: SAGE.
Framing Fear: Findings from a Study of Election News and Terrorist Threat in Russia. Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 58, No. 2 (March): 281-290.
The Internet, Civil Society and Democracy: A Comparative Perspective (with Rachel K. Gibson). 2005. In Sarah Oates, Diana Owen and Rachel K. Gibson, The Internet and Politics: Citizens, Voters and Activists. London: Routledge. ISBN 041534784X, pp. 20-38.
Where’s the Party?: Television and Political Image in Russia. Forthcoming 2005. In Katrin Voltmer (ed). Mass Media and New Democracies. London: Routledge. ISBN 0203328663, pp. 152-167.
Media, Civil Society, and the Failure of the Fourth Estate in Russia. 2005. In Alfred B. Evans Jr., Laura A. Henry and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom (eds), Russian Civil Society: A Critical Assessment. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe Inc. ISBN 0765615215
Selling Fear?: The Framing of Terrorist Threat in Elections. July 2005. In Security, Terrorism and the U.K., London: Chatham House ISP/NSC Briefing Paper 05/01, pp. 7-8.
Media Effects and the Russian Elections, 1999-2000 (with Stephen White and Ian McAllister). 2005. The British Journal of Political Science 34 (2): 191-208.
Media and Political Communication. 2005. In Stephen White, Zvi Gitelman and Richard Sakwa (eds), Developments in Russian Politics 6. Basingstroke: Palgrave.
Post-Soviet Political Style: Parties, Television and Voters. 2004. In Geir Flikke (ed.) The Uncertainties of Putin’s Democracy (Oslo: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs 2004), pp. 109-128, ISBN 8270021008
Television, Voters and the Development of the ‘Broadcast Party’. 2003. In Vicki Hesli and Bill Reisinger (eds.) The 1999–2000 Elections in Russia: Their Impact and Legacy. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521816769
Politics and the Media in Postcommunist Russia (with Stephen White). 2003. Politics 23:1, pp. 31-37.
The 'Clash of Civilizations' and Postcommunist Europe (with Stephen White and Bill Miller). 2003. Comparative European Politics, Vol .1, pp. 111-127.
Was It Russian Public Television That Won It? (with Stephen White and Ian McAllister). 2002. The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 7(2), pp. 17-33.
Politics and The Media. 2001. In Stephen White, Alex Pravda and Zvi Gitelman (eds.) Developments in Russian Politics 5. Basingstoke: Palgrave. ISBN 0333948572
Towards a Soviet Past or a Soviet Future? Understanding Why Voters Choose Communist Parties in Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic (with William L. Miller and Åse Grødeland). 2001. In Paul Lewis (ed.) Party Development and Democratic Change in Post-Communist Europe: The First Decade. London: Frank Cass Publishers. ISBN 0714681741
Religion and Political Action in Postcommunist Europe (with Stephen White, William L. Miller and Åse Grødeland). 2000. Political Studies. Volume 48: No. 4, pp. 681-705.
Russian Elections and TV News: Comparison of Campaign News on State-Controlled and Commercial Television Channels (with Laura Roselle). 2000. The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 5(2), pp. 30-51.
Eastern Publics and Western Enlargement (with Stephen White, Clelia Rontoyanni and William Miller). 2000. International Politics 37 (Summer), pp. 323-344.
Russia's Parliamentary Elections: The Dirty Road to the Duma. 2000. Problems of Post-Communism. Vol. 47, No. 2 (Spring), pp. 30-51.
Russian Television. 1999. In Lynda Lee Kaid (ed.) Television and Politics in Evolving European Democracies. Commack, N.J.: NOVA Science Publishers. ISBN 1560727535
Party Platforms: Toward a Definition of the Russian Political Spectrum. 1998. Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics. Vol. 14, Nos. 1-2 (March-June), pp. 76-97. Also appeared as a chapter in John Lowenhardt (ed.) 1998. Party Politics in Post-Communist Russia. London: Frank Cass. ISBN 0714644439
Parties and Voters in the 1995 Russian Parliamentary Elections (with Stephen White and Matthew Wyman). 1997. Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 49: No. 5 (July), pp. 767-798.
Regional Results in the 1996 Russian Presidential Elections. 1997. Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics. Vol. 13: No. 1 (March 1997), pp. 123-131.
Selected presentations
Comrades Online, paper prepared for “Politics 2.0” an international conference at Royal Holloway, University of London, April 17-18, 2008. Click here: http://www.media-politics.com/oates comrades online revised april 2008.pdf
Through A Lens Darkly?: Russian Television and Terrorism Coverage in Comparative Perspective, Paper prepared for The Mass Media in Post-Soviet Russia International Conference, 6-8 2006,
Comparative Aspects of Terrorism Coverage: Television and Voters in the 2004
Sarah Oates and Andrew Williams. Audience Framing of Terrorist Attacks and the Media in the
Citizen or Comrade?: Terrorist Threat in Election Campaigns in Russia and the U.S. (with Monica Postelnicu). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., September 2005. Click here: http://webzoom.freewebs.com/saoates/oates postelnicu apsa 2005.pdf
The Mass Media, Elections and the Failure of Democracy in Russia. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, September 2004. Click here: http://webzoom.freewebs.com/saoates/oates apsa paper 2004.pdf
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail: The Role of Terrorist Threat in Russian Election Campaigns. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, September 2004. Click here: http://webzoom.freewebs.com/saoates/fear_and_loathing.pdf
From the Archives of the European Institute for the Media: Analysing the Results of a Decade of Monitoring of Post-Soviet Elections. Paper presented at the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, England, April 2004. http://www.media-politics.com/EIM reports/oates_basees 04 paper.doc
Post-Soviet Political Style: Parties, Television and Voters. Presented at Center for Russian Studies at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs Conference on Putin, Oslo, Norway, January 2004.
Beacon for Democracy or Tool for Oppression? Fitting the Internet into Political Communication Models in Non-Free States. Presented at the Changing Media and Civil Society Workshop, European Consortium for Political Research, Edinburgh, March 2003.
“No Better Heroes”: Political Images, Elections and Russian Viewers." Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, September 2002.
"You Watch in Pain”: What Russians Dislike About Their Television Programming." Paper presented at the Russian Politics Under Putin Conference, Centre for European Political Research, University of Dundee, Scotland. May 2002.
Tuning Out Democracy: Television, Voters and Parties in Russia, 1993-2000. Paper presented at the Political Communication, Mass Media and Consolidation of New Democracies Workshop, European Consortium of Political Research, Turin, Italy. March 2002.
Television, Voters and Democracy in Russia: The Development of the 'Broadcast Party', 1993-2000, paper presented at the Shambaugh Conference on Russian Politics, University of Iowa, April 2000.
The Advent of the 'Broadcast Party': Parties, Voters and Television in Russia, 1993-1999. Paper presented at the Political Studies Association Annual Meeting, The London School of Economics, April 2000.
The Soviet Legacy in Voting Behaviour?: Support for Left Parties in Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Co-authored with William L. Miller and Åse Grødeland. Paper presented at the European Aspects of Post-Communist Party Development Workshop, European Consortium for Political Research, Mannheim, Germany. March 1999.
What's the Story? A Comparison of Campaign News on State-Owned and Independent Television Networks in Russia. Co-authored with Laura Roselle Helvey. Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, U.S.A. September 1998.
Parties, Television and Image in the Russian Parliamentary Elections of 1995. Presented at the Images of Politics Conference at the Netherlands Audiovisual Archive, Amsterdam, October 1997.
Russian Television's Mixed Messages: Parties, Candidates and Control on Vremya, 1995-1996. Co-authored with Laura Roselle Helvey. Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. August 1997.
How Russia's Regions Vote: Mapping Electoral Change in a New Democracy. Co-authored with Matthew Wyman, Stephen White and Ian McAllister. Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. August 1997.
Russian Party Platforms: Charting Issues in the 1993 and 1995 Duma Campaigns. Presented at the Party Politics in Postcommunist Russia Conference, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom. May 1997.
The Impact of Campaign on Vote Choice in the Russian Duma Elections of 1995. Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. August 1996.
