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Media and Citizenship : Between Marginalisation and Participation / ed. by Herman Wasserman, Anthea Garman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2017]Description: 1 online resource (241 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780796926456
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.449320968 23/eng/20231120
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: The media–citizenship nexus -- 1 Citizens and journalists: The possibilities of co-creating the democracy we want -- 2 Listening: A normative approach to transform media and democracy -- 3 Democracy and political participation: The ambivalence of the Web -- Part 2: The media–democracy problematic -- 4 Speaking power’s truth: South African media in the service of the suburbs -- 5 ‘Back to the people’ journalism: Journalists as public storytellers -- 6 A better life for all? Consumption and citizenship in post-apartheid media culture -- 7 ‘Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument’: Reason, emotion and affect in the post-apartheid public sphere -- 8 The tale of two publics: Media, political representation and citizenship in Hout Bay, Cape Town -- 9 ‘Non-poor only’: Culture jamming and the limits of free speech in South Africa -- Part 3: Acts of citizenship -- 10 Could a ‘Noongarpedia’ form the basis for an emerging form of citizenship in the age of new media? -- 11 The media, Equal Education and school learners: ‘Political listening’ in the South African education crisis -- 12 Innocence: A free pass into the moral commonweal -- 13 We are not the ‘born frees’: The real political and civic lives of eight young South Africans -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: Challenges assumptions about the relationship between the media and democracy in highly unequal societies like postapartheid South Africa.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: The media–citizenship nexus -- 1 Citizens and journalists: The possibilities of co-creating the democracy we want -- 2 Listening: A normative approach to transform media and democracy -- 3 Democracy and political participation: The ambivalence of the Web -- Part 2: The media–democracy problematic -- 4 Speaking power’s truth: South African media in the service of the suburbs -- 5 ‘Back to the people’ journalism: Journalists as public storytellers -- 6 A better life for all? Consumption and citizenship in post-apartheid media culture -- 7 ‘Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument’: Reason, emotion and affect in the post-apartheid public sphere -- 8 The tale of two publics: Media, political representation and citizenship in Hout Bay, Cape Town -- 9 ‘Non-poor only’: Culture jamming and the limits of free speech in South Africa -- Part 3: Acts of citizenship -- 10 Could a ‘Noongarpedia’ form the basis for an emerging form of citizenship in the age of new media? -- 11 The media, Equal Education and school learners: ‘Political listening’ in the South African education crisis -- 12 Innocence: A free pass into the moral commonweal -- 13 We are not the ‘born frees’: The real political and civic lives of eight young South Africans -- Contributors -- Index

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Challenges assumptions about the relationship between the media and democracy in highly unequal societies like postapartheid South Africa.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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