Media And Public Spheres »

RICHARD BUTSCH is Professor of Sociology, American Studies and Film and Media Studies at Rider University. He is the author of The Citizen Audience (2008) and The Making of American Audiences from Stage to Television, 1750-1990 (2000).

Using examples from the US, Europe and Asia, this collection - now available in paperback -- presents empirical studies of print, recorded music, movies, radio, television and the Internet to reveal both how media structure public spheres and how people use media to participate in the public sphere.

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1 Introduction: How Are Media Public Spheres? Richard Butsch 1

2 Can the Mass Media Deliberate?: Insights from Print Media and Political Talk Shows Hartmut Wessler Tanjev Schultz 15

3 Connection or Disconnection?: Tracking the Mediated Public Sphere in Everyday Life Nick Couldry Sonia Livingstone Tim Markham 28

4 The Local Public Sphere as a Networked Space Lewis A. Friedland Christopher C. Long Yong Jun Shin Nakho Kim 43

5 Public Sphere and Publicness: Sport Audiences and Political Discourse Cornel Sandvoss 58

6 A Necessary Profession for the Modern Age?: Nineteenth Century News, Journalism and the Public Sphere Henrik Öet;rnebring 71

7 'They Just Make Sense': Tabloid Newspapers as an Alternative Public Sphere Sofia Johansson 83

8 Rethinking Public Service Broadcasting: The Historical Limits to Publicness Michael Bailey 96

9 Digital Radio and the Diminution of the Public Sphere Stephen Lax 109

10 On Becoming the Media: Low Power FM and the Alternative Public Sphere J. Zach Schiller 122

11 Representing the Public of the Cinema's Public Sphere Shawn Shimpach 136

12 The Psychedelic Public and Its Problems: Rock Music Festivals and Civil Society in the Sixties Counterculture Michael J. Kramer 149

13 Popular Culture and the Public Sphere: Currents of Feeling and Social Control in Talk Shows and Reality TV Peter Lunt Mervi Pantti 162

14 The Revolution Will Be Televised: Free Speech TV, Democratic Communication and the Public Sphere Todd Fraley 175

15 Lost in Space: Television's Missing Publics Virginia Nightingale 185

16 From Public Sphere to Civic Culture: Young Citizen's InternetUse Peter Dahlgren Tobias Olsson 198

17 Blurring Boundaries in a 'Cyber-Greater China': Are Internet Bulletin Boards Constructing the Public Sphere in China? Yan Wu 210

References 223

Index 245