Daniel C Hallin: 4 books

Building on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West European and North American democracies, Hallin and Mancini identify the principal dimensions of variation in media systems and the political variables which have shaped their evolution. They go on to identify three major models of media...

C'è un unico modello professionale di giornalismo o se ne possono individuare diversi a seconda dei vari contesti politici? Un'indagine comparativa tra le democrazie liberali dell'Europa occidentale e del Nordamerica, sulle interrelazioni tra sistemi politici e sistemi di comunicazione e sulle loro conseguenze per la vita democratica.

Coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky saga followed in a long trail of media exposures of the more personal details of the lives of public figures. Many commentators have seen stories like this, and TV shows like Jerry Springer's, as evidence of a decline in the standards of the mass media. This increasing...

This book examines the relationship between media and medicine, considering the fundamental role of news coverage in constructing wider cultural understandings of health and disease. The authors advance the notion of ‘biomediatization’ and demonstrate how health knowledge is co-produced through...