Reclaiming the Media : Communication Rights and Democratic Media Roles.
Title:
Reclaiming the Media : Communication Rights and Democratic Media Roles.
Author:
Cammaerts, Bart.
ISBN:
9781841509754
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (312 pages)
Series:
Intellect Books - European Communication Research and Education Association
Contents:
Front Cover -- Preliminary Pages -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Reclaiming the media: communication rights and expanding democratic media roles -- Section One: Citizenship, the Public Sphere, and Media -- Making a difference to media pluralism: a critique of the pluralistic consensus in European media policy -- Communication and (e)democracy: assessing European e-democracy discourses -- Reducing communicative inequalities towards a pedagogy for inclusion -- Section Two: Participation and Media -- Citizen participation and local public spheres: an agency and identity focussed approach to the Tampere postal services conflict -- Towards fair participation: recruitment strategies in Demostation -- Appendix: the five programmes -- Representation and inclusion in the online debate: the issue of honor killings -- Section Three Journalism, Media, and Democracy -- Coping with the agoraphobic media professional: a typology of journalistic practices reinforcing democracy and participation -- Disobedient media - unruly citizens: governmental communication in crisis -- On the dark side of democracy: the global imaginary of financial journalism -- Section Four Activism and Media -- Contesting global capital, new media, solidarity, and the role of a social imaginary -- Civil Society Media at the WSIS: a new actor in global communication governance? -- Media and communication strategies of glocalized activists: beyond media-centric thinking -- Notes on the Contributors -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
At the beginning of the 21st century, it hardly goes uncontested anymore that media organisations play an important role in democracy. The main questions have now become whether the contemporary media conjuncture offers enough to our democracies, how their democratic investment can be deepened and how our communication rights can be expande. This book aims to look at four thematic areas that structure the opportunities for democratising (media) democracy. A first section is devoted to citizenship and the public spheres, giving special attention to the general theme of communication rights. The second section elaborates further on a notion central to communication rights, namely that of participation. The third section returns to the traditional representational role in relation to democracy and citizenship, scrutinizing and criticizing the democratic efforts of contemporary journalism. The fourth section moves outside of the (traditional) media system, and deals with the diversity of media and communication strategies of activists. This is volume 3 in the European Communication Research and Education Association book series.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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