Coleman / Ross The Media and The Public

"Them" and "Us" in Media Discourse
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-1818-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Communication in the Public Interest

The Media and the Public explores the ways a range of media,from the press to television to the Internet, have constructed andrepresented the public.
* Provides a new synthesis of recent research exploring therelationship between media and their publics
* Identifies ways in which different publics are subverting thegatekeeping of mainstream media in order to find a voice andcommunicate with others
* Situates contemporary media-public discourse and relationshipsin an historical context in order to show the origin ofcontemporary public/political engagement
* Creates a theoretical expansion on the role of the media inaccessing or denying the articulation of public voices, and theways in which publics are harnessing new media formats to producericher and more complex forms of political engagement

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coleman, Stephen

Ross, Karen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction. Them and us: Meet Joe the Plumber
1. Imagining the public
2. Public spheres
3. The managed public
4. Counterpublics and alternative media
5. Virtual publicness
6. Fractured publics, contested publicness
Notes
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Coleman is Professor of Political Communication andCo-Director of the Centre for Digital Citizenship, Institute forCommunications Studies, University of Leeds. He is the author ofThe Internet and Democratic Citizenship: Theory, Practice, andPolicy (with Jay G. Blumler, 2009) and Public Trust in theNews: A Constructivist Study of the Social Life of News (withDavid Morrison and Scott Anthony, 2009).
Karen Ross is Professor of Media and Public Communicationat the University of Liverpool. She has written and edited manybooks, including Gendered Media: Women, Men and IdentityPolitics (2009), Popular Communication: Essays on Publics,Practices and Processes (2008), Rethinking Media Education:Critical Pedagogy and Identity Politics (2007), and Womenand Media: Critical Issues (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006).