1. Introduction : how are media public spheres? / Richard Butsch -- 2. Can the mass media deliberate? : insights from print media and political talk shows / Hartmut Wessler and Tanjev Schultz -- 3. Connection or disconnection? : tracking the mediated public sphere in everyday life / Nick Couldry, Sonia Livingstone and Tim Markham -- 4. The local public sphere as a networked space / Lewis A. Friedland, Christopher C. Long, Yong Jun Shin and Nakho Kim -- 5. Public sphere and publicness : sport audiences and political discourse / Cornel Sandvoss -- 6. A necessary profession for the modern age? : nineteenth century news, journalism and the public sphere / Henrik Ornebring -- 7. 'They just make sense' : tabloid newspapers as an alternative public sphere / Sofia Johansson -- 8. Rethinking public service broadcasting : the historical limits to publicness / Michael Bailey -- 9. Digital radio and the diminution of the public sphere / Stephen Lax -- 10. On becoming the media : low power FM and the alternative public sphere / J. Zach Schiller -- 11. Representing the public of the cinema's public sphere / Shawn Shimpach -- 12. The psychedelic public and its problems : rock music festivals and civil society in the sixties counterculture / Michael J. Kramer -- 13. Popular culture and the public sphere : currents of feeling and social control in talk shows and reality TV / Peter Lunt and Mervi Pantti -- 14. The revolution will be televised : free speech TV, democratic communication and the public sphere / Todd Fraley -- 15. Lost in space : television's missing publics / Virginia Nightingale -- 16. From public sphere to civic culture : young citizen's Internet use / Peter Dahlgren and Tobias Olsson -- 17. Blurring boundaries in a 'cyber-greater China' : are Internet bulletin boards constructing the public sphere in China? / Yan Wu.