Can the Media Serve Democracy?

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Can the Media Serve Democracy?

   1. Introduction: Can the Media Serve Democracy?

      • Stephen Coleman, Giles Moss, Katy Parry

      Pages 1-18

3. Media Systems and Comparative Research

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. The Idea of ‘Systems’ in Media Studies: Criticisms, Risks, Advantages

      • Paolo Mancini

      Pages 21-32

   3. The Fine Art of Comparing Media Systems: Opportunities, Pitfalls and Challenges

      • Kees Brants

      Pages 33-43

   4. Comparative Political Communication Research: The Undiminished Relevance of the Beginnings

      • Frank Esser

      Pages 44-52

   5. Mediatization of the Modern Publicity Process

      • Winfried Schulz

      Pages 53-62

4. Journalism, Democracy and the Public Interest

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Public Service Broadcasting: Markets and ‘Vulnerable Values’ in Broadcast and Print Journalism

      • Stephen Cushion, Bob Franklin

      Pages 65-75

   3. Political Communication Research in the Public Interest

      • Denis McQuail

      Pages 76-86

   4. Journalists, Journalism and Research: What Do We Know and Why Should We Care?

      • David H. Weaver

      Pages 87-98

   5. Democratic Political Communication Systems and the Transformative Power of Scandals: Phone Hacking at the News of the World as a Critical Juncture in the Regulation of the British Press

      • James Stanyer

      Pages 99-108

   6. Morals and Methods: A Note on the Value of Survey Research

      • David E. Morrison

      Pages 109-117

5. Public Culture and Mediated Publics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. The Dream Machine? — Television as Public Culture

      • John Corner

      Pages 121-131

   3. Audiences and Publics: Reflections on the Growing Importance of Mediated Participation

      • Sonia Livingstone

      Pages 132-140

   4. On Seeing Both Sides: Notes on the 2012 Presidential Debates

      • Elihu Katz, Menahem Blondheim

      Pages 141-148

6. Changing Media, New Democratic Opportunities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. Changing Societies, Changing Media Systems: Challenges for Communication Theory, Research and Education

      • W. Lance Bennett

      Pages 151-163

   3. The Internet’s Gift to Democratic Governance: The Fifth Estate

      • William H. Dutton

      Pages 164-173

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.

• Media
• Democracy
• Public Sphere
• Journalism
• Public Service Broadcasting
• Blumler
• Political Communication
• Media Systems
• Comparative Research
• Research Methods
• broadcasting
• care
• communication
• culture
• democracy
• governance
• Internet
• media
• media studies
• participation
• Print
• public service broadcasting
• service
• social change
• television

• University of Leeds, UK

  Stephen Coleman, Giles Moss, Katy Parry

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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