Media and Public Spheres [Hardcover]

Using examples from the US, Europe and Asia,this collection presentsempirical studies of print, recorded music, movies, radio, television and the Internetto reveal both how media structure public spheresand how people use media to participate in the public sphere.Notes on Contributors Introduction: How Are Media Public Spheres?; R.Butsch Can the Mass Media Deliberate? Insights from Print Media and Political Talk Shows; H.Wessler & T.Schultz Connection or Disconnection? Tracking the Mediated Public Sphere in Everyday Life; N.Couldry, S.Livingstone & T.Markham The Local Public Sphere as a Networked Place; L.Friedland & C.Long with Y.J.Shin & N.Kim Public Sphere and Publicness: Sport Audiences and Political Discourse; C.Sandvoss A Necessary Profession for the Modern Age? Nineteenth Century News, Journalism and the Public Sphere; H.?rnebring 'They Just Make Sense': Tabloid Newspapers as an Alternative Public Sphere; S.Johansson Rethinking Public Service Broadcasting: The Historical Limits to Publicness; M.Bailey Digital Radio and the Diminution of the Public Sphere; S.Lax On Becoming the Media: Low Power FM and the Alternative Public Sphere; J.Z.Schiller Representing the Public of the Cinema's Public Sphere; S.Shimpach The Psychedelic Public and Its Problems: Rock Music Festivals and Civil Society in the Sixties Counterculture; M.Kramer Popular Culture and the Public Sphere: Currents of Feeling and Social Control in Talk Shows and Reality TV; P.Lunt & M.Pantti The Revolution Will Be Televised: Free Speech TV, Democratic Communication and the Public Sphere; T.Fraley Lost in Space: Television's Missing Publics; V.Nightingale From Public Sphere to Civic Culture: Young Citizen's Internet Use; P.Dahlgren & T.Olsson Blurring Boundaries in a 'Cyber Greater China': Are Internet Bulletin Boards Constructing the Public Sphere in China?; Y.Wu References Index

'Richard Butsch's collection of thoughtful interventions in public sphere media criticism rlY