Rethinking media pluralism
By: Kari Karppinen
Series: Donald McGannon Communication Research Center's Everett C. Parker book series
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780823245123; 9780823245130
Subjects: Multiculturalism; Mass media policy; Mass media
Description: Contends that the notions of media pluralism and diversity have been reduced to empty catchphrases or conflated with consumer choice and market competition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Theorizing pluralism and the public sphere. Three models of democratic pluralism; title: Pluralization and its problems; title: Toward a critical concept of media pluralism; title: The politics of media pluralism. Aspects and scope of media pluralism; title: Paradoxes of communicative abundance; title: Uses of pluralism in contemporary media policy; title: Empirical indicators and the politics of criteria; title: Conclusion.