Reclaiming the Media – Communication Rights and Democratic Media Roles (European Communication Research and Education Association) - Softcover

Cammaerts, Bart; Carpenter, Nico

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841501638 ISBN 13: 9781841501635

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2013

Synopsis

At the beginning of the 21st century, it hardly goes uncontested anymore that media organisations play an important role in democracy. The main questions have now become whether the contemporary media conjuncture offers enough to our democracies, how their democratic investment can be deepened and how our communication rights can be expande. This book aims to look at four thematic areas that structure the opportunities for democratising (media) democracy. A first section is devoted to citizenship and the public spheres, giving special attention to the general theme of communication rights. The second section elaborates further on a notion central to communication rights, namely that of participation. The third section returns to the traditional representational role in relation to democracy and citizenship, scrutinizing and criticizing the democratic efforts of contemporary journalism. The fourth section moves outside of the (traditional) media system, and deals with the diversity of media and communication strategies of activists. This is volume 3 in the European Communication Research and Education Association book series.

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About the Authors

Bart Cammaerts is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Ph.D. program in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is the former chair of the Communication and Democracy Section of ECREA and vice-chair of the Communication Policy and Technology section of IAMCR. His most recent books include Mediation and Protest Movements (with Alice Matoni and Patrick McCurdy, Intellect, 2013), Internet-Mediated Participation beyond the Nation State (Manchester University Press, 2008) and Understanding Alternative Media (with Olga Bailey and Nico Carpentier, Open University Press, 2008).

Nico Carpentier is an extraordinary professor at Charles University, visiting professor at Tallinn University and president of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (2020–24). His theoretical focus is on discourse theory; his research is situated in the relationship between communication, politics and culture, especially towards social domains such as war and conflict, ideology, participation and democracy.

Contact: Culture and Communication Research Centre, Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Smetanovo nábřeží 6, 110 01 Prague 1, Czech Republic.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841501638
• ISBN 13: 9781841501635
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312