(Communication in the Public Interest) 1st Edition
by Stephen Coleman (Author), Karen Ross (Author)
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 publics
- Identifies
ways in which different publics are subverting the gatekeeping of
mainstream media in order to find a voice and communicate with others
- Situates
contemporary media-public discourse and relationships in an historical
context in order to show the origin of contemporary public/political
engagement
- Creates 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
