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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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Keywords
- Media
- Democracy
- Public Sphere
- Journalism
- Public Service Broadcasting
- Blumler
- Political Communication
- Media Systems
- Comparative Research
- Research Methods
- broadcasting
- care
- communication
- culture
- democracy
- governance
- Internet
- media
- media studies
- participation
- public service broadcasting
- service
- social change
- television
Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Can the Media Serve Democracy?
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Media Systems and Comparative Research
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Journalism, Democracy and the Public Interest
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Public Culture and Mediated Publics
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Changing Media, New Democratic Opportunities
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
W. Lance Bennett, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Menahem Blondheim, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Jay G. Blumler, University of Leeds, UK Kees Brants, Leiden University, Netherlands Stephen Coleman, University of Leeds, UK John Corner, University of Liverpool, UK James Curran, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK William H. Dutton, Michigan State University, USA Frank Esser, University of Zurich, Switzerland Bob Franklin, Cardiff University, UK Elihu Katz, University of Pennsylvania, USA Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics, UK Paolo Mancini, Università di Perugia, Italy Gianpietro Mazzoleni, University of Milan, Italy Denis McQuail, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands David Morrison, University of Leeds, UK Giles Moss, University of Leeds, UK Katy Parry, University of Leeds, UK Winfried Schulz, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany James Stanyer, Loughborough University, UK David H. Weaver Indiana University, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Can the Media Serve Democracy?
Book Subtitle: Essays in Honour of Jay G. Blumler
Editors: Stephen Coleman, Giles Moss, Katy Parry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137467928
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-46791-1Published: 02 January 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-50011-6Published: 01 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-46792-8Published: 05 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 251
Topics: Democracy, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Political Science, Media and Communication, Media Studies, Social Sciences, general