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The Media and The Public "Them" and "Us" in Media Discourse

ISBN: 9781405160407 | 1405160403
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 3/15/2010

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
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... MORE
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Them and us: Meet Joe the Plumber
Imagining the public
Public spheres
The managed public
Counterpublics and alternative media
Virtual publicness
Fractured publics, contested publicness
Notes
Bibliography
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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 Scott Anthony, 2009).

Karen Ross is Professor of Media and Public Communication at the University of Liverpool. She has written and edited many books, including Gendered Media: Women, Men and Identity Politics (2009), Popular Communication: Essays on Publics, Practices and Processes (2008), Rethinking Media Education: Critical Pedagogy and Identity Politics (2007), and Women and Media: Critical Issues (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006).



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