Reclaiming the media : communication rights and democratic media roles / / edited by Bart Cammaerts and Nico Carpentier

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910810725203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bristol, UK, : Intellect, 2007
• ISBN: 1-280-70962-6; 9786610709625; 1-84150-975-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Collana: European communication research and education association series
• Altri autori (Persone): CammaertsB (Bart); CarpentierNico
• Disciplina: 302.23
• Soggetti: Mass media; Democracy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Introduction: Reclaiming the media: communication rights and expanding democratic media roles; Section One: Citizenship, the Public Sphere, and Media; Making a difference to media pluralism: a critique of the pluralistic consensus in European media policy; Communication and (e)democracy: assessing European e-democracy discourses; Reducing communicative inequalities towards a pedagogy for inclusion; Section Two: Participation and Media; Citizen participation and local public spheres: an agency and identity focused approach to the Tampere postal services conflict; Towards fair participation: recruitment strategies in Demostation Appendix: the five programmes; Representation and inclusion in the online debate: the issue of honor killings; Section Three Journalism, Media, and Democracy; Coping with the agoraphobic media professional: a typology of journalistic practices reinforcing democracy and participation; Disobedient media - unruly citizens: governmental communication in crisis; On the dark side of democracy: the global imaginary of financial journalism; Section Four Activism and Media; Contesting global capital, new media, solidarity, and the role of a social imaginary Civil Society Media at the WSIS: a new actor in global ; communication governance?; Media and communication strategies of glocalized activists: beyond media-centric thinking; Notes on the Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: At the beginning of the 21st century, it hardly goes uncontested anymore that media organisations play an important role in democracy. The main questions have now become whether the contemporary media conjuncture offers enough to our democracies, how their democratic investment can be deepened and how our communication rights can be expanded.