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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Foundations
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Front Matter
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The Public Connection Project
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Front Matter
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Conclusion
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Back Matter
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Reviews
'A significant contribution to academic research.' - The Political Quarterly
'...makes an important contribution to debates around the relationship between celebrity and politics, democratic malaise and media effects, which should be of interest to, and should be read by, students both of politics and of media and society more generally.' - European Journal of Communication
'...an important book, contributing valuable empirical evidence on 'actually existing' public spheres and presenting us with some disturbing and thought and hopefully, action - provoking findings.' - Journal of Consumer Culture
'This book is... a text I will certainly be recommending to students engaged in postgraduate study of audiences, or with any interest in the relationship between media and political engagement.' - Participations
'It is almost as if I had been waiting for precisely this book...with inspiring conceptual clarity, detailed empirical study, and a very accessible style, the authors explore the complex character of citizens' media connection in modern democracies.' - Professor Peter Dahlgren, Lund University, Sweden
'This book may well prove to be an important one for those interested in the relationship between media and politics...This book is a demanding one to read, but it is a text I will certainly be recommending to students engaged in postgraduate study of audiences, or with any interest in the relationship between media and political engagement.' - Michael Higgins, Journal of Audience and Reception Studies
'Couldry et al have provided some significant and rigorous empirical research on public engagement with, and consumption of, the media. Their research makes an important contribution to debates around the relationship between celebrity and politics, democratic malaise and media effects, which should be of interest to, and should be read by students both of politics and of media and society more generally.' Heather Savigny, European Journal of Communication
'Nick Couldry, Sonia Livingstone, and Tim Markham apply a timely empirical lens to issues that have been taken-for-granted for too long. It has been too easy to assume a normative role for media in civic knowledge and participation in the face of evidence of decline and then to blame media for that decline. They show that the situation is much more subtle, nuanced, and complex than that; that while the media are central, media cannot alone address the broader conditions that strain a sense of public connection today.' - Professor Stewart M. Hoover, University of Colorado, USA
Authors and Affiliations
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Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Nick Couldry
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London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Sonia Livingstone
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Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Tim Markham
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Media Consumption and Public Engagement
Book Subtitle: Beyond the Presumption of Attention
Authors: Nick Couldry, Sonia Livingstone, Tim Markham
Series Title: Consumption and Public Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230800823
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-8534-7Published: 03 April 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-24738-3Published: 03 April 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-80082-3Published: 12 January 2016
Series ISSN: 2947-8227
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8235
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 247
Topics: Political Sociology, Media Studies, Political Communication, Sociology of Culture, Cultural Studies, Democracy