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Record Nr.

UNINA9910831178103321

Autore

Coleman Stephen <1957->

Titolo

The media and the public : "them" and "us" in media discourse / / Stephen Coleman and Karen Ross

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

1-119-18739-7

1-282-48237-8

9786612482373

1-4443-1817-9

1-4443-1818-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Collana

Communication in the Public Interest

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Mass media and public opinion

Public interest

Mass media - Audiences

Mass media - Social aspects

Mass media and culture

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  (pages [169]-178) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Media and the Public; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Them and Us: Meet Joe the Plumber; 1 Imagining the Public; 2 Public Spheres; 3 The Managed Public; 4 Counterpublics and Alternative Media; 5 Virtual Publicness; 6 Fractured Publics, Contested Publicness; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 publicsIdentifies ways in which different publics are subverting the gatekeeping of mainstream media in order to find a voice and communicate with othersSituates contemporary media-public discourse and relationships in an historical context in order to show the origin of contemporary public/political



engagementCreates a theor