In this broad-ranging text, Peter Dahlgren clarifies the underlying theoretical concepts of civil society and the public sphere, and relates these to a critical analysis of the practice of television as journalism, as information and as entertainment. He demonstrates the limits and the possibilities of the television medium and the formats of popular journalism. These issues are linked to the potential of the audience to interpret or resist messages, and to construct its own meanings. What does a realistic understanding of the functioning and the capabilities of television imply for citizenship and democracy in a mediated age?
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Peter Dahlgren clarifies the underlying theoretical concepts of civil society and the public sphere, and relates these to a critical analysis of the practice of television as journalism, as information and as entertainment. He demonstrates the limits and the possibilities of the television medium and the formats of popular journalism.
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PART ONE: INITIAL HORIZONS Mediating Democracy Prismatic Television Popular Television Journalism PART TWO: SHIFTING FRAMES Modern Contingencies Communication and Subjectivity Civil Society and Its Citizens PART THREE: FLICKERING HOPES Democratic Mediations?
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ISBN
9780803989221
Publisert
1995-08-24
Utgiver
Vendor
SAGE Publications Ltd
Vekt
460 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
05, 06, U, P
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
192

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Biographical note

Peter Dahlgren is Principal Lecturer in the Department of Journalism, Media and Communications at the University of Stockholm. He is the author or editor of numerous works in Swedish and of two books in English, both of which he edited with Colin Sparks: Communication and Citizenship (Sage, 1991) and Journalism and Popular Culture (Sage, 1992).