ISBN:
9781134372232
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 255 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2012 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Communication and society
Parallel Title:
Print version Media and democracy
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Communication in politics
;
Mass media Political aspects
;
Democracy
;
Massenmedien
;
Demokratie
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Comparing media. Shining city on hill -- Questioning a new orthodoxy -- Media system, public knowledge and democracy -- Media and democratic theory. Entertaining democracy -- Liberal dreams and the internet -- Media and new technology. Technology foretold -- Future of journalism -- Media and history. Narratives of media history revisited -- Press as an agency of social control -- advertising as a bounty system -- Media and culture. Media as custodians of cultural tradition -- Media and cultural theory in the age of market liberalism.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-246) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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