Can the Media Serve Democracy? [electronic resource] : Essays in Honour of Jay G. Blumler /
Coleman, Stephen.editor.
Moss, Giles.editor.
Parry, Katy.editor.
This landmark collection brings leading scholars in the field of political communication to debate one of the most important questions of our age: Can the media serve democracy? For the media to be democratic, they must enter into a positive relationship with their readers, viewers and listeners as citizens rather than consumers who buy things, audiences who gaze upon spectacles or isolated egos, obsessed with themselves. The media's first task is to remind people that they are inhabitants of a world in which they can make a difference. By enabling citizens to encounter and make sense of events, relationships and cultures of which they have no direct experience, the media constitute a public arena in which members of the public come together as more than passing strangers.
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Can the Media Serve Democracy?; Part I Media Systems and Comparative Research; 2 The Idea of 'Systems' in Media Studies: Criticisms, Risks,Advantages; 3 The Fine Art of Comparing Media Systems: Opportunities, Pitfalls and Challenges; 4 Comparative Political Communication Research: The Undiminished Relevance of the Beginnings; 5 Mediatization of the Modern Publicity Process; Part II Journalism, Democracy and the Public Interest
6 Public Service Broadcasting:Markets and 'Vulnerable Values' in Broadcast and Print Journalism 7 Political Communication Research in the Public Interest; 8 Journalists, Journalism and Research: What Do We Know and Why Should We Care?; 9 Democratic Political Communication Systems and the Transformative Power of Scandals:Phone Hacking at the News of the World as a Critical Juncture in the Regulation of the British Press; 10 Morals and Methods: A Note on the Value of Survey Research; Part III Public Culture and MediatedPublics; 11 The Dream Machine? - Televisionas Public Culture
12 Audiences and Publics: Reflections on the Growing Importance of Mediated Participation 13 On Seeing Both Sides: Notes on the 2012 Presidential Debates; Part IV Changing Media, New Democratic Opportunities; 14 Changing Societies, Changing Media Systems: Challenges for Communication Theory, Research and Education; 15 The Internet's Gift to Democratic Governance: The Fifth Estate 1; 16 Towards an Inclusive Digital Public Sphere; 17 Beyond the Po-Faced Public Sphere; Part V The Past, Present and Future of Political Communication; 18 Jay Blumler: A Founding Father of British Media Studies
19 'Values Are Always at Stake': An Interview with Jay G. Blumler Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This landmark collection brings leading scholars in the field of political communication to debate one of the most important questions of our age: Can the media serve democracy? For the media to be democratic, they must enter into a positive relationship with their readers, viewers and listeners as citizens rather than consumers who buy things, audiences who gaze upon spectacles or isolated egos, obsessed with themselves. The media's first task is to remind people that they are inhabitants of a world in which they can make a difference. By enabling citizens to encounter and make sense of events, relationships and cultures of which they have no direct experience, the media constitute a public arena in which members of the public come together as more than passing strangers.
Democracy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Political science.
Communication.
Social sciences.
Democracy.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Political Science.
Media and Communication.
Media Studies.
Social Sciences, general.