Media and Public Spheres

Notes on Contributors Introduction: How Are Media Public Spheres?; R.Butsch Can the Mass Media Deliberate? Insights from Print Media and Political Talk Shows; H.Wessler & T.Schultz Connection or Disconnection? Tracking the Mediated Public Sphere in Everyday Life; N.Couldry, S.Livingstone & T.Markham The Local Public Sphere as a Networked Place; L.Friedland & C.Long with Y.J.Shin & N.Kim Public Sphere and Publicness: Sport Audiences and Political Discourse; C.Sandvoss A Necessary Profession for the Modern Age? Nineteenth Century News, Journalism and the Public Sphere; H.Örnebring 'They Just Make Sense': Tabloid Newspapers as an Alternative Public Sphere; S.Johansson Rethinking Public Service Broadcasting: The Historical Limits to Publicness; M.Bailey Digital Radio and the Diminution of the Public Sphere; S.Lax On Becoming the Media: Low Power FM and the Alternative Public Sphere; J.Z.Schiller Representing the Public of the Cinema's Public Sphere; S.Shimpach The Psychedelic Public and Its Problems: Rock Music Festivals and Civil Society in the Sixties Counterculture; M.Kramer Popular Culture and the Public Sphere: Currents of Feeling and Social Control in Talk Shows and Reality TV; P.Lunt & M.Pantti The Revolution Will Be Televised: Free Speech TV, Democratic Communication and the Public Sphere; T.Fraley Lost in Space: Television's Missing Publics; V.Nightingale From Public Sphere to Civic Culture: Young Citizen's Internet Use; P.Dahlgren & T.Olsson Blurring Boundaries in a 'Cyber Greater China': Are Internet Bulletin Boards Constructing the Public Sphere in China?; Y.Wu References Index