A private sphere : : Democracy in a digital age /
Zizi A. Papacharissi.
Bok Engelsk 2010
| Utgitt | Cambridge: : Polity Press, , 2010.
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| Omfang | 1 recurso electrónico (210 p.)
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| Opplysninger | COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Contemporary Democracies, Civic Engagement, and the Media; 2 Public and Private Expression in Contemporary Democracies; 3 Converged Media, Converged Audiences, and Converged Publics; 4 The Question of Citizenship in a Converged Environment; 5 The Public Sphere, Expired? On the democratizing potential of convergent technologies; 6 A Private Sphere; References; Index. - Online technologies excite the public imagination with narratives of democratization. The Internet is a political medium, borne of democracy, but is it democratizing? Late modern democracies are characterized by civic apathy, public skepticism, disillusionment with politics, and general disinterest in conventional political process. And yet, public interest in blogging, online news, net-based activism, collaborative news filtering, and online networking reveal an electorate that is not disinterested, but rather, fatigued with political conventions of the mainstream. This book examin
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| ISBN | 9780745658995
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