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Can the Media Serve Democracy?

Essays in Honour of Jay G. Blumler

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  1. Stephen Coleman

    1. University of Leeds, UK

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    1. University of Leeds, UK

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  3. Katy Parry

    1. University of Leeds, UK

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Changing Media, New Democratic Opportunities

    1. Towards an Inclusive Digital Public Sphere

      • Gianpietro Mazzoleni
      Pages 174-183

    2. Beyond the Po-Faced Public Sphere

      • Stephen Coleman
      Pages 184-193

  2. The Past, Present and Future of Political Communication

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195
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    2. Jay Blumler: A Founding Father of British Media Studies

      • James Curran
      Pages 197-209

    3. ‘Values Are Always at Stake’: An Interview with Jay G. Blumler

      • Katy Parry, Giles Moss
      Pages 210-221

  3. Back Matter

    Pages 222-251
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This landmark collection brings leading scholars in the field of political communication to debate one of the most important questions of our age: Can the media serve democracy? For the media to be democratic, they must enter into a positive relationship with their readers, viewers and listeners as citizens rather than consumers who buy things, audiences who gaze upon spectacles or isolated egos, obsessed with themselves. The media's first task is to remind people that they are inhabitants of a world in which they can make a difference. By enabling citizens to encounter and make sense of events, relationships and cultures of which they have no direct experience, the media constitute a public arena in which members of the public come together as more than passing strangers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Leeds, UK

    Stephen Coleman, Giles Moss, Katy Parry

About the editors

W. Lance Bennett, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Menahem Blondheim, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Jay G. Blumler, University of Leeds, UK Kees Brants, Leiden University, Netherlands Stephen Coleman, University of Leeds, UK John Corner, University of Liverpool, UK James Curran, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK William H. Dutton, Michigan State University, USA Frank Esser, University of Zurich, Switzerland Bob Franklin, Cardiff University, UK Elihu Katz, University of Pennsylvania, USA Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics, UK Paolo Mancini, Università di Perugia, Italy Gianpietro Mazzoleni, University of Milan, Italy Denis McQuail, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands David Morrison, University of Leeds, UK Giles Moss, University of Leeds, UK Katy Parry, University of Leeds, UK Winfried Schulz, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany James Stanyer, Loughborough University, UK David H. Weaver Indiana University, USA

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