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The Media and The Public: Them and Us in Media Discourse
Stephen Coleman
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Description for The Media and The Public: Them and Us in Media Discourse
Paperback. The Media and the Public explores the ways a range of media have constructed and represented the public. The authors argue that the public is a product of representation, invoked through processes of mediation that are dominated by political, institutional, economic and cultural forces. Series: Communication in the Public Interest. Num Pages: 200 pages, figures. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 298.
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.
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 publics
- Identifies ways in which different publics are subverting the gatekeeping of mainstream media in order to find a voice and communicate with others
- Situates contemporary media-public discourse and relationships in an historical context in order to show the origin of contemporary public/political engagement
- Creates a theoretical expansion on the role of the media in accessing or denying the articulation of public ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Communication in the Public Interest
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405160414
SKU
V9781405160414
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Stephen Coleman
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 of The Internet and Democratic Citizenship: Theory, Practice, and Policy (with Jay G. Blumler, 2009) and Public Trust in the News: A Constructivist Study of the Social Life of News (with David Morrison and ... Read more
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