Beschreibung
The Media and the Public explores the ways a range of media, from the press to television to the Internet, have constructed and represented the public.Provides a new synthesis of recent research exploring the relationship between media and their publicsIdentifies ways in which different publics are subverting the gatekeeping of mainstream media in order to find a voice and communicate with othersSituates contemporary media-public discourse and relationships in an historical context in order to show the origin of contemporary public/political engagementCreates a theoretical expansion on the role of the media in accessing or denying the articulation of public voices, and the ways in which publics are harnessing new media formats to produce richer and more complex forms of political engagement
Autorenportrait
Stephen Coleman is Professor of Political Communication and Co-Director of the Centre for Digital Citizenship, Institute for Communications Studies, University of Leeds. He is the author ofThe Internet and Democratic Citizenship: Theory, Practice, and Policy (with Jay G. Blumler, 2009) andPublic Trust in the News: A Constructivist Study of the Social Life of News (with David Morrison and Scott Anthony, 2009).
Karen Ross is Professor of Media and Public Communication at the University of Liverpool. She has written and edited many books, includingGendered Media: Women, Men and Identity Politics (2009),Popular Communication: Essays on Publics, Practices and Processes (2008),Rethinking Media Education: Critical Pedagogy and Identity Politics (2007), andWomen and Media: Critical Issues (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006).
Inhalt
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Them and Us: Meet Joe the Plumber 1
1 Imagining the Public 8
2 Public Spheres 29
3 The Managed Public 45
4 Counterpublics and Alternative Media 72
5 Virtual Publicness 93
6 Fractured Publics, Contested Publicness 123
Notes 156
Bibliography 169
Index 179
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