The media Context of the Czech Foreign Policy in 2007–2009
The media Context of the Czech Foreign Policy in 2007–2009

Author(s): Lenka Vochocová, Vlastimil Nečas
Subject(s): Media studies, Political history, Government/Political systems, International relations/trade, Political behavior, Politics and communication, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Ústav mezinárodních vztahů
Keywords: Media; politics; Czech Republic; foreign policy; 2007-2009;
Summary/Abstract: The information revolution in the twentieth century had an essential impact on the ways of asserting political interests and influencing voters – not only during pre-election campaigns. It was particularly the massive onset of television in the second half of the last century which brought about a significant change in the relation between politics and the media, referred to as mediazation. Political or media studies are thus confronted with the question of the relation between the media and politics in the present-day western democracies. Theoretical as well as research works analysing this relation fall within the sphere of political communication and, in more general terms, the region of exploring the theories of media effects. A considerable number of diverse concepts have emerged as a result in the course of the systematic investigation of the manners in which the media have been influencing individuals and society (approximately since the end of the 1930s).

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