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The concept of “mediatization” is doing heavy duty these days at several levels of communication analysis, many spheres of communication organization and various facets of political communication. A burgeoning literature of “mediatization-in-politics” has produced well-defined, well-analyzed and research-serviceable versions of the concept (see especially Chapter 1 of this volume; Strömbäck, 2008; Strömbäck & Esser, 2009; Schulz, 2004). Major works have treated mediatization as a prime axis on which the modern political communication process revolves (Brants & Voltmer, 2011; Kriesi et al., 2013).
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Blumler, J.G. (2014). Mediatization and Democracy. In: Esser, F., Strömbäck, J. (eds) Mediatization of Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137275844_2
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