This book examines how election news reporting has changed over the last half century in Ireland by means of a unique dataset involving 25m words from newspapers as well as radio and television coverage. The authors examine reporting in terms of framing, tone and the distribution of coverage.They also focus on how the economy has affected election coverage as well as media reporting of leaders and personalities, gender and the effect of the commercial basis of media outlets. The findings – drawn from a machine learning computer system involving a huge content analysis study – will interest academics as well as politicians and policymakers internationally.
Table of Content
List of figures
List of tables
List of authors
Acknowledgements
1 Resilient reporting: An introduction
2 Ireland: political, economic, and media systems
3 The media and political change
4 The role of the economy in media coverage
5 Gender bias and Irish election coverage
6 Party leaders and personalisation of politics
7 Commercialism and election coverage
8 Economy and crisis coverage
Conclusion
Appendix 1: An overview of elections in Ireland since 1969
Appendix 2: Data and methodology
References
Index
About the author
Kevin Rafter is head of the department of film and media at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire.
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