Peter Dahlgren

Media and Political Engagement

Citizens, Communication and Democracy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

One of the most difficult problems facing Western democracy today is the decline in citizensâEUR(TM) political engagement. This book examines the mediaâEUR(TM)s key role in shaping the character of civic engagement and its potential to shape and enhance political engagement, as well as create new forms of political involvement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 405g
• ISBN-13: 9780521527897
• ISBN-10: 0521527899
• Artikelnr.: 24927913

Autorenporträt

Peter Dahlgren is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Lund University, Sweden. He has also taught at Stockholm University, as well as Queens College and Fordham University in New York City, and has been a visiting scholar at several other universities. He is the author of many articles and author or editor of several books, including Television and the Public Sphere (1995) and Young Citizens and New Media: Learning for Democratic Participation (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Democracy in difficult times
2. Media alternatives
3. Citizens and agency
4. Engagement, deliberation, and performance
5. Civic cultures: an analytic frame
6. Television and popular public spheres
7. Internet and civic potential
8. Online practices and civic cultures.