Jeffrey Wimmer, Nico Carpentier

Democracy and Media in Europe

A Discursive-Material Approach

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Produktbeschreibung

Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach is a theoretical reflection on the intersection of democracy and media, through a constructionist lens.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032779263
• ISBN-10: 1032779268
• Artikelnr.: 71619511

Autorenporträt

Nico Carpentier is Extraordinary Professor at Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic), Visiting Professor at Tallinn University (Estonia) and at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (Suzhou, China). He was Vice-President of the European Communication Research and Education Association (2008-2012) and President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (2020-2024). His theoretical focus is on discourse theory, his research is situated in the relationship between communication, politics and culture, especially towards social domains as war & conflict, ideology, participation and democracy. His latest monographs are The Discursive-Material Knot (2017) and Iconoclastic Controversies (2021). His last exhibition was The Mirror of Conflict photography exhibition, in October 2023 at the Energy Museum, Istanbul in Türkiye. Jeffrey Wimmer is Professor of Communication Science with an emphasis on media reality at the University of Augsburg, Germany. From 2008 to 2014, he was chairing the 'Communication and Democracy' section of the European Communication Research and Education Association, and from 2009 to 2015 the 'Sociology of Media Communication' section of the German Association of Communication Science. His research and teaching focuses on the sociology of media communication, public sphere and participation, mediatization and media change, digital games and virtual worlds. Recent edited book publications include (Mis-)Understanding Political Participation (2018, Routledge) and The Forgotten Subject (2023).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Democracy 1. Core Components of Democracy 2. Struggles
over Democracy 3. Conditions of Possibility of Democracy 4. Threats to
Democracy 5. A First Visual Summary Part II: Media and Democracy 6. Core
Components of Media 7. The Roles of (European) Media in Democracy 8.
Struggles over Media's Democratic Roles 9. Conditions of Possibility for
Media's Democratic Roles 10. Threats to Media's Democratic Roles 11. A
Second Visual Summary A brief conclusion References Index