How Political Actors Use the Media

1.Information and Arena. The Dual Function of the News Media for Political Elites, Peter Van Aelst, Stefaan Walgrave.- Part 1.- 2. An intervening intermediary. Making political sense of media influence, Gunnar Thesen.- 3. Celebrities as Political Actors and Entertainment as Political Media, Amber E. Boydstun, Regina G. Lawrence.- 4. Political Public Relations and Mediatization: The Strategies of News Management, Jesper Strömbäck, Frank Esser.- 5. Too powerful or just doing their job? Explaining Differences in Conceptions of Media Power among Politicians and Journalists, Rens Vliegenthart, Morten Skovsgaard.- Part 2.- 6. What Politicians Learn from the Mass Media and Why They React to it. An Analytical Framework, Julie Sevenans.- 7. The Media Dependency of Political Elites, Stefaan Walgrave, Julie Sevenans, Alon Zoizner, Matthew Ayling.- 8. When do Politicians React to the Media: How the attitudes and goals of political elites moderate the effect of the media on the political agenda, Alon Zoizner, Yair Fogel-Dror, Tamir Sheafer.- Part 3.- 9. Moving Beyond the Single Mediated Arena Model: Media Uses and Influences Across Three Arenas, Aeron Davis.- 10. The Charm of Salient Issues? Parties' Strategic Behavior in Press Releases, Caroline Dalmus, Regula Hänggli, Laurent Bernhard.- 11. Does News tone Affect the Government in the News?, Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Peter B. Mortensen, Gunnar Thesen.- Part 4.- 12. Why the Media Matters for Politicians. A Study on the Strategic Use of Mass Media in Lawmaking, Lotte Melenhorst, Peter Van Aelst.- 13. Information Source and Political Arena: How Actors from Inside and Outside Politics Use the Media, Nayla Fawzi.- 14. Elaborating and specifying the information & arena framework, Stefaan Walgrave & Peter Van Aelst.

Peter Van Aelst and Stefaan Walgrave are professors in political science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium and leading members of the research group 'Media, Movements and Politics'(www.M2P.be). They have published widely on the relationship between media an d politics and the agenda-setting role of the media.