Catherine Happer

The construction of public opinion in a digital age (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Poised to become a cornerstone in media and audience studies, Happer's book offers a ground-breaking model for understanding how demands for change are accommodated into systems of power.'
Giuliana Tiripelli, De Montfort University

'This elegantly written book offers an empirically rich examination of the media's influence on public opinion and social change in the context of public disaffection and a transformed media landscape.'
James Curran, Goldsmiths, University of London

This book presents an innovative new model for understanding how media and communications interact with politics, culture and everyday experience to construct people's ideas and opinions. It locates these processes in a time of constant political crisis, when new technologies are changing how we access information and questions of 'truth' and 'reality' are being radically reworked. The book identifies a growing disconnect between an increasingly centralised media and political class and the public it serves - ripe for exploitation by rightwing political actors but ultimately in the hands of the global tech corporations who control the digital space.

Drawing on a decade of empirical research, this ambitious book demonstrates the role of demographics, identity groupings and socio-economic conditions in producing patterns in opinion. With an emphasis on the importance of language, value systems and differentiated media cultures - from BBC News to TikTok shorts - it offers new insights into whether age is replacing class as the key marker of political divisions.

The construction of public opinion explores how new mechanisms for controlling thought and opinion limit the potential for social change - and how this might be resisted.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526180216
• Artikelnr.: 72583033

Autorenporträt

Catherine Happer is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow and Director of the Glasgow University Media Group.