Media democracy : how the media colonize politics / Thomas Meyer with Lew Hinchman.
Media democracy : how the media colonize politics / Thomas Meyer with Lew Hinchman.
Media democracy : how the media colonize politics / Thomas Meyer with Lew Hinchman.
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Publisher
Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2002.
Date
2002.
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N302.23/ 163
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English
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xvii, 166 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Preface: Media, Culture, and Politics -- 1. The Logic of Politics -- 2. The Logic of Mass Media -- 3. The Process of Colonization -- 4. The Effects of Colonization -- 5. The Transformation of Representative Democracy -- 6. Prospects for Media Democracy -- Conclusion: Democracy in Transition.
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Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2002.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2002.
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"Meyer argues that real power in the media is wielded by an iron triangle of media-savvy political elites, pollsters and media executives who are all committed to the media's logic of up-to-minute reportage. Media democracy has replaced deliberation - once the lifeblood of democratic public life - with pseudo-plebiscites. Nevertheless, deliberative...
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Media democracy : how the media colonize politics / Thomas Meyer with Lew Hinchman.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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0745628435 (Cloth)
9780745628431
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9780745628448 (pbk)
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302.23
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991016155879702626
