Remaking Media
The Struggle to Democratize Public Communication
Published on 29. July 2006
256 pages
978-1-134-15936-9 (ISBN)
Description
Remaking Media is a unique and timely reading of the contemporary struggle to democratize communication.
With a focus on activism directed towards challenging and changing media content, practices and structures, the book explores the burning question: What is the political significance and potential of democratic media activism in the western world today?
Taking an innovative approach, Robert Hackett and William Carroll pay attention to an emerging social movement that appears at the cutting edge of cultural and political contention, and ground their work in three scholarly traditions that provide interpretive resources for the study of democratic media activism:
political theories of democracy
critical media scholarship
the sociology of social movements.
Remaking Media examines the democratization of the media and the efforts to transform the machinery of representation. Such an examination will prove invaluable not only to media and communication studies students, but also to students of political science.
With a focus on activism directed towards challenging and changing media content, practices and structures, the book explores the burning question: What is the political significance and potential of democratic media activism in the western world today?
Taking an innovative approach, Robert Hackett and William Carroll pay attention to an emerging social movement that appears at the cutting edge of cultural and political contention, and ground their work in three scholarly traditions that provide interpretive resources for the study of democratic media activism:
political theories of democracy
critical media scholarship
the sociology of social movements.
Remaking Media examines the democratization of the media and the efforts to transform the machinery of representation. Such an examination will prove invaluable not only to media and communication studies students, but also to students of political science.
Reviews / Votes
'A meticulously researched work... [which] is also absolutely timely in its analysis of the preconditions for successful media activism.' - Global Media and CommunicationMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
3 s/w Zeichnungen, 7 s/w Tabellen
7 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white
File size
1,23 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-15936-9 (9781134159369)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
05/2006
1st Edition
Routledge
€155.99
Withdrawn from sale
Book
05/2006
1st Edition
Routledge
€42.00
Shipment within 15-20 days
Persons
Robert Hackett, William Carroll
Content
List of Tables and Figures. Foreword by Robert W. McChesney. Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Beyond the Media's Democratic Deficit? 2. What is at Stake? Power and the Media Field 3. Democratizing Society: Social Movements and Public Communication 4. Visions and Divisions: Normative Commitments of Media Democratization 5. The Long Revolution and the Media Alliance 6. Campaigning for Press and Broadcasting Freedom in the UK 7. Challenges for Media Activism: Obstacles and Opponents 8. Springboards for Media Activism: Opportunities, Resources, Strategies and Allies 9. Movement Formation and Counter-Hegemony in a Global City 10. Identity, Vision, Strategies: Media Democratization as Counter-Hegemony 11. Conclusion: Media Activism as Movement-Nexus? Bibliography
