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.
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
Reviews for Organizations and the Media: Organizing in a Mediatized World
'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 today's 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.
