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Communication and Citizenship

This book addresses a question which is increasingly at the centre of
academic and journalistic debate: to what extent are the media in
modern societies able to help citizens learn about the world, debate their
responses to it and reach informed decisions about what courses of
action to adopt? Can the media play a role in the formation of a ‘public
sphere’ at a time when public service broadcasting is under attack, and
the popular press plays to the market with an output of celebrity gossip
and sensationalized reporting?
The contributors to this collection of new essays each concentrate on
one aspect of the role and future of the public sphere in the United
States and Europe, both East and West. Topics under discussion include
American politics and television news, feminist perspectives on the
public sphere, the Polish media after Stalinism and the popular press
and television in the United Kingdom.

The Editors:
Peter Dahlgren is Principal Lecturer in the Department of Journalism,
Media and Communication at Stockholm University, Sweden.
Colin Sparks is Principal Lecturer in the School of Communication at
the Polytechnic of Central London.

The Contributors:
Ian Connell, Ann N.Crigler, James Curran, Peter Dahlgren, Klaus Bruhn
Jensen, Karol Jakubowicz, Todd Gitlin, Michael Gurevitch, Suzanne
Hasselbach, Mark R.Levy, Paolo Mancini, John M. Phelan, Vincent
Porter, Itzhak Roeh, Colin Sparks, Liesbet van Zoonen.