How We Are Governed

Investigations of Communication, Media and Democracy
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4438-5406-1
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 245 Seiten

How We Are Governed explores interdisciplinary relations between communication and politics. It brings together diverse perspectives from the field of Communication and Media Studies, focusing on formal arenas of politics and public policy as well as politics in the broad sense of an informal negotiation of social relations of power between people.

The book deals with questions about governing across many different domains, paying particular attention to communicative practices and technologies. Each chapter focuses on some empirical instance or instances of media–politics and media–democracy relations, on how these have been or are being exercised in shaping the limits of possible action, and on how they are being interrogated and reinvented. A persistent theme is whether the arrangements detailed in each instance can best be described as democratic, or otherwise.

Chapters focus on arguments about media regulation; the guardianship of public life; the Leveson Inquiry; Web 2.0 communication in German elections; new media and citizen participation in politics; reality TV and the formation of economic literacy; online participation in the “illiberal democracy” of Singapore; citizenship and market formation in online safety education programs; mining taxes and market populism; and public broadcasting and soft diplomacy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dearman, Philip

Greenfield, Cathy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medien & Gesellschaft, Medienwirkungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Führung

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Dearman is a Lecturer in Media and Communication at RMIT University. He researches the organisation of professional labour, histories of education policy, the use of media and communication technologies in schools, and the privatisation of public transport systems. He is currently the General Editor of Communication, Politics and Culture.

Cathy Greenfield is an Associate Professor of Communication at RMIT University. She researches the role of media in the government of populations, and teaches across politics, political-economy and communication studies. She has published on media and financialization, neoliberalism, and populism, and was General Editor of Communication, Politics and Culture from 1993 to 2011.