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Organizations and the Media: Organizing in a Mediatized World [Pehme köide]

Edited by (Uppsala University, Sweden), Edited by , Edited by (Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden)
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The relationship between media and the organizations they cover has changed dramatically in the last few decades, which have witnessed a huge expansion of news coverage focusing on different types of organizations and their activities. In parallel, organizations have dramatically increased their investment in public relations and other media-oriented forms of communication. Like other societal developments – globalization, marketization, individualization, scientification – mediatization has become an institutional force.

This book analyses the mediatization of contemporary organizations and how individual organizations, industry or markets are scrutinized. It examines its key influence on the actions of organizations, and how it shaptes the entire landscape in which the organizations operate. What such a perspective provides is the accentuation of the interplay between organizations and different parts of the society as embedded in the media and its logic.

This will be essential reading for professionals, academics and advanced students in organizational studies, public relations and media studies.



In the last few decades we have witnessed an expansion in the amount of news coverage focusing on organizations and their activities and similarly, organizations have increased their investment in their own PR and media oriented forms of communication. This book explores how organizations and organizing can be understood as a part of a mediatize

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'This highly interesting volume brings together expert knowledge on the growing interdependence between media and organizations and is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the mediatized conditions of todays organizational practices.' - Stig Hjarvard, Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

'Understanding the intersecting communication activities of journalism and business, political and non-governmental organizations is vital. These news reports are a central influence on how society views organizations, and here an international group of scholars examines their creation by the media and organizations.' - Maxwell McCombs, Professor Emeritus, The University of Texas, USA

'Mediatization is one the fastest-growing debates in communications research, but its growth depends on well-informed empirical research. This edited collection on organizations outside media is a major contribution to this interdisciplinary field, examining from many angles news production about and within contemporary organizations.' - Nick Couldry, Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Chapter
1. Media and Organizations Images, Practices and Organizing
Chapter
2. The role of Business Media in Constructing Rational Myths of
Organization Chpater
3. The Institutionality of a Mediatized Organizational
Environment
Chapter
4. Corruption and the Media: Infotainment, Moralization,
Dramatization, and Conversationalization
Chapter
5. Fleeting Fleet-Street:
The Ephemeral Nature of Institutional Media Effects
Chapter
6. The
Foundations of a Theory Explaining Organizational News: The VT4 Framework of
Organizational News Content and Five Levels of Influence on its Production
Chapter
7. We Have Never Been Pure. Negotiations Between Journalism and
Business in Newspaper Organizations
Chapter
8. How the Business Press
Stabilizes and Destabilizes Notions of Audit Failure: The Case of Intrum
Justitia
Chapter
9. The Codification of Everything
Chapter
10. Between a
Rock and a Hard Place: Framing Public Organizations in the News
Chapter
11.
Mediatization in New Areas: The Changed Role of Public Bureaucracies
Chapter
12. Semi-Autonomous Organizations Communication Challenges in a Mediatized
Society: A Case Study of the Swedish Development Cooperation Agency
Chapter
13. Framing Impressions in Corporate Communication: The Mediatization of
Corporate Messages
Chapter
14. The Mediatization of Campaign Organizations
Chapter
15. Corporate Governance and Communication
Chapter
16. Media
Enactments: Where to Look for Inspiration in Mediatization Studies
Josef Pallas is Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Business Studies and the Department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University, Sweden

Lars Strannegård is Professor in the Department of Management and Organization at Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

Stefan Jonsson is Professor in the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden