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Autore: | Birks Jen |
Titolo: | News and civil society : the contested space of civil society in UK media / / Jen Birks |
Pubblicazione: | Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014 |
©2014 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
Disciplina: | 300.941 |
302.230941 | |
Soggetto topico: | Civil society - Great Britain |
Mass media - Great Britain | |
Law enforcement - Great Britain | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Theorising Legitimacy in Civil Society and the Media; 3 Civil Society in the News: Case Studies; 4 The Good Society: Virtues, Interests, and Justice; 5 Uncivil Action: Legal and Moral Legitimacy; 6 Representation and its Alternatives: Political Legitimacy; 7 Civility in the Public Realm: Social and Personal Legitimacy; 8 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | This timely book examines the representation of civil society in news media, exploring the popular understanding of this contested space in relation to conflicting legitimating frames: as the neo-liberal Big Society, activist political participation, or postmodern apolitical tolerance. With close reference to prominent news stories, including the UK state visit of Pope Benedict XVI, anti-austerity protests and industrial action, police infiltration of the environmental movement, and the Occupy camp at St Paul's Cathedral in London, News and Civil Society scrutinises different facets of contemp |
Titolo autorizzato: | News and civil society |
ISBN: | 1-315-59823-X |
1-317-08764-X | |
1-317-08763-1 | |
1-4094-3616-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910787631503321 |
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