The media and the public : them and us in media discourse

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Title:

The media and the public : them and us in media discourse

Author:

Coleman, Stephen, 1957-

ISBN:

9781405160414

9781405160407

Personal Author:

Coleman, Stephen, 1957-

Publication Information:

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Physical Description:

viii, 188 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Communication in the public interest

Communication in the public interest.

Contents:

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.

Subject Term:

Mass media -- Audiences.

Mass media and culture.

Mass media and public opinion.

Mass media -- Social aspects.

Public interest.

Added Author:

Ross, Karen, 1957-

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Summary

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 engagement Creates a theoretical expansion on the role of the media in accessing or denying the articulation of public voices, and the ways in which publics are harnessing new media formats to produce richer and more complex forms of political engagement