Media and Public Spheres

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: How Are Media Public Spheres?....Pages 1-14
Can the Mass Media Deliberate?: Insights from Print Media and Political Talk Shows....Pages 15-27
Connection or Disconnection?: Tracking the Mediated Public Sphere in Everyday Life....Pages 28-42
The Local Public Sphere as a Networked Space....Pages 43-57
Public Sphere and Publicness: Sport Audiences and Political Discourse....Pages 58-70
A Necessary Profession for the Modern Age?: Nineteenth Century News, Journalism and the Public Sphere....Pages 71-82
‘They Just Make Sense’: Tabloid Newspapers as an Alternative Public Sphere....Pages 83-95
Rethinking Public Service Broadcasting: The Historical Limits to Publicness....Pages 96-108
Digital Radio and the Diminution of the Public Sphere....Pages 109-121
On Becoming the Media: Low Power FM and the Alternative Public Sphere....Pages 122-135
Representing the Public of the Cinema’s Public Sphere....Pages 136-148
The Psychedelic Public and Its Problems: Rock Music Festivals and Civil Society in the Sixties Counterculture....Pages 149-161
Popular Culture and the Public Sphere: Currents of Feeling and Social Control in Talk Shows and Reality TV....Pages 162-174
The Revolution Will Be Televised: Free Speech TV, Democratic Communication and the Public Sphere....Pages 175-184
Lost in Space: Television’s Missing Publics....Pages 185-197
From Public Sphere to Civic Culture: Young Citizens’ Internet Use....Pages 198-209
Blurring Boundaries in a ‘Cyber-Greater China’: Are Internet Bulletin Boards Constructing the Public Sphere in China?....Pages 210-222
Back Matter....Pages 223-250