Author: Philip Lee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Get Book
Book Description
This text argues that communication is the foundation on which a society is based and the means by which it maintains political, economic and social relationships with other societies. Issues covered include who "owns" information, and what the cultural implications of the information age will be.
Author: Robert Hackett
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134159366
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Get Book
Book Description
Remaking Media is a unique and timely reading of the contemporary struggle to democratize communication. With a focus on activism directed towards challenging and changing media content, practices and structures, the book explores the burning question: What is the political significance and potential of democratic media activism in the western world today? Taking an innovative approach, Robert Hackett and William Carroll pay attention to an emerging social movement that appears at the cutting edge of cultural and political contention, and ground their work in three scholarly traditions that provide interpretive resources for the study of democratic media activism: political theories of democracy critical media scholarship the sociology of social movements. Remaking Media examines the democratization of the media and the efforts to transform the machinery of representation. Such an examination will prove invaluable not only to media and communication studies students, but also to students of political science.
Author: Mashoed Bailie
Publisher: Hampton Press (NJ)
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Get Book
Book Description
This volume considers the implications of recent, economic and technological restructuring for public communication. It explores how instrumental conceptions of communication divorced from concepts of citizenship, power and democracy frustrate the potentials of the technologies.
Author: Katrin Voltmer
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030167488
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Get Book
Book Description
This book investigates the role of media and communication in processes of democratization in different political and cultural contexts. Struggles for democratic change are periods of intense contest over the transformation of citizenship and the reconfiguration of political power. These democratization conflicts are played out within an increasingly complex media ecology where traditional modes of communication merge with new digital networks, thus bringing about multiple platforms for journalists and political actors to promote and contest competing definitions of reality. The volume draws on extensive case study research in South Africa, Kenya, Egypt and Serbia to highlight the ambivalent role of the media as force for democratic change, citizen empowerment, and accountability, as well as driver of polarization, radicalization and manipulation.
Author: G. Rawnsley
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023055489X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Get Book
Book Description
Political Communication and Democracy provides a wide-ranging and inclusive study of political communications that uses current political events and debates to illustrate its arguments. Looking beyond the narrow view that political communication concerns only the media and spin doctors, Gary Rawnsley examines the subject in its myriad forms: political parties and pressure groups as a way by which people join together, referendums, public opinion and how communications contribute to the process of democratization around the world.
Author: Monroe E. Price
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134544359
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Get Book
Book Description
Using examples of media from a range of countries in Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa including Uruguay, Poland, China, Indonesia, Jordan and Uganda, Media Reform considers the social and cultural implications of a free and independent media.
Author: Katrin Voltmer
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415337798
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Get Book
Book Description
Using a comparative approach, this book examines how political communication and the mass media have played an important role in the consolidation of democratic institutions.
Author: Aeron Davis
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1529730147
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Get Book
Book Description
When we are told so regularly that we live in a ‘post truth’ age and are surrounded by ‘fake news’, it can be tempting to think of politics as primarily mediated. Discussion and analysis of public affairs is preoccupied with the power and reach of platforms or the passion and rage of social media exchanges. As important as these issues may be, a focus on the communicative risks downgrading the political. Media, Democracy and Social Change puts politics back into political communications. It shows how within a digital media ecology, the wider context of neoliberal capitalism remains essential for understanding what political communications is, and can hope to be. Tackling broad themes of structural inequality, technological change, political realignment and social transformation, the book explores political communications as it relates to debates around the state, infrastructures, elites, populism, political parties, activism, the legacies of colonialism, and more. It is both an expert introduction to the field of political communications, and a critical intervention to help re-imagine what a democratic politics might mean in a digital age. It will be essential reading for students, researchers and activists. Aeron Davis, Natalie Fenton, Des Freedman and Gholam Khiabany all work at the Department of Media and Communication at Goldsmiths, University of London, where they teach together on the MA in Political Communications.
Author: Nathaniel Persily
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108835554
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Get Book
Book Description
A state-of-the-art account of what we know and do not know about the effects of digital technology on democracy.
Author: Algis Mickunas
Publisher: Hampton Press (NJ)
ISBN:
Category : Communication
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Get Book
Book Description
This text focuses on the potential conflict between the emancipatory function of communicative politics and the control effects that derive from communications, and discusses its relationship to the politics of liberation, democracy and market economy.
