Page 6 - Communication and Citizenship Journalism and the Public Sphere

Contents

A note on contributors vii
Acknowledgements ix

Introduction 1
Peter Dahlgrenb

Part I Institutional logics

1 Rethinking the media as a public sphere 27
James Curran
2 Goodbye, Hildy Johnson: the vanishing ‘serious 57
press’
Colin Sparks
3 Selling consent: the public sphere as a televisual 73
market-place
John M.Phelan
4 Beyond balanced pluralism: broadcasting in 93
Germany
Vincent Porter and Suzanne Hasselbach

Part II Politics and journalism
5 Bites and blips: chunk news, savvy talk and the 117
bifurcation of American politics
Todd Gitlin
6 The public sphere and the use of news in a 135
‘coalition’ system of government
Paolo Mancini
7 Musical chairs? The three public spheres in Poland 153
Karol Jakubowicz