- 192 pages
- English
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About this book
In this broad-ranging text, Peter Dahlgren clarifies the underlying theoretical concepts of civil society and the public sphere, and relates these to a critical analysis of the practice of television as journalism, as information and as entertainment. He demonstrates the limits and the possibilities of the television medium and the formats of popular journalism. These issues are linked to the potential of the audience to interpret or resist messages, and to construct its own meanings. What does a realistic understanding of the functioning and the capabilities of television imply for citizenship and democracy in a mediated age?
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I - Initial Horizons
- Chapter 1 - Mediating Democracy
- Desiring Democracy
- The Public Sphere as Historical Narrative
- Four Dimensions
- Media Institutions
- Media Representation
- Social Structures
- Interaction: Social Bonds and Social Construction
- Subjectivity, Identity, Interaction
- Chapter 2 - Prismatic Television
- Three Angles of Vision
- Industry: Organization, Professionalism, Political Economy
- Mimetic Televisual Texts
- Two Worlds?
- Sociocultural TV: Ubiquity, Culturology and Critique
- Chapter 3 - Popular Television Journalism
- Television Journalism: an Esential Tension
- Probing 'the Popular'
- Old and New Formats
- Elusive Information, Accessible Stories
- Tele-tabloids
- Talk Shows: Élite and Vox-pop
- Morality and Dialogue
- Part II - Shifting Frames
- Chapter 4 - Modern Contingencies
- Falling Rates of Certitude
- Flowing Capitalism
- Destabilized Microworlds
- The Semiotic Environment
- Going Global?
- The Problematics of Public and Private
- Political Permutations
- Chapter 5 - Communication and Subjectivity
- A Universal Model?
- Language and Lacunae
- Cultural Contexts
- Repressing the Unconscious
- Dealing with Desire
- Reassembling the Reflexive Subject
- Imagination and Emancipation
- Chapter 6 - Civil Society and its Citizens
- The Contexts of Reception
- The Horizon of Civil Society
- Institutionalized Lifeworlds
- Constructive Talk and Social Bonds
- The Evolution of Citizenship
- Community, Difference, Universality
- Citizens and Identity
- Part III - Flickering Hopes
- Chapter 7 - Democratic Mediations?
- Television in its Place
- Citizens and Politics
- Common Domain, Advocacy Domain
- References
- Index