Media Consumption and Public Engagement: Beyond the Presumption of Attention, Revised and Updated Edition - Couverture souple

Couldry, Nick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0230247385 ISBN 13 : 9780230247383

Editeur : Palgrave, 2010

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Governments in many countries fear voting turnout and political engagement is in terminal decline, threatening the long-term legitimacy of the democratic process. Meanwhile definitions of politics and the public world are changing, while media formats are proliferating and media audiences fragmenting in the age of digital media.

How are these important trends related? And what do our everyday habits of consuming media contribute to our possibilities of being effective citizens?

Nick Couldry, Sonia Livingstone and Tim Markham address these questions in this agenda-setting book, now available in a revised and updated paperback edition. Using a highly original methodology, drawing on diaries recording individuals perspectives on the public world, the book includes interviews, a nationwide survey and an authoritative review of the current literature on democratic theory, political sociology and media audiences. The result is a major assessment of the difference that media, and our ways of living with media, make to the condition of democracy.

Biographie de l'auteur :

NICK COULDRY is Professor of Media and Communications, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. He is the author or editor of, amongst others, Media Rituals: A Critical Approach and Listening Beyond the Echoes: Media, Ethics and Agency in an Uncertain World.

SONIA LIVINGSTONE is Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. She is the author or editor of fourteen books including Audiences and Publics, Children and the Internet, and the Handbook of New Media.

TIM MARKHAM is Lecturer in Journalism in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0230247385
• ISBN 13: 9780230247383
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248