The Media and The Public : "Them" and "Us" in Media Discourse Paperback / softback

by Stephen (University of Leeds, UK) Coleman, Karen (University of Liverpool, UK) Ross

Part of the Communication in the Public Interest series

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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 theoretical expansion on the role of the media in accessing or denying the articulation of public voices, and the ways in which publics are harnessing new media formats to produce richer and more complex forms of political engagement