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by Wessler, HartmutBuy New
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Summary
Habermas and the Media offers an accessible introduction, as well as a critical investigation of how Habermas’s thinking can help us to understand and assess our contemporary communication environment – and where his framework needs revision and extension.
Full of original and sometimes surprising insights, this book is essential reading for scholars and students of media, political communication, and democracy, as well as anyone seeking guidance through Habermas’s rich world of thought.
Author Biography
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures and Tables
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Bourgeois Public Sphere and its Critics
- Chapter 2: Nurturing Communicative Action
- Chapter 3: Media for Deliberative Democracy
- Chapter 4: Mediated Public Spheres
- Chapter 5: Deliberative Qualities of News and Discussion Media
- Chapter 6: Non-Deliberative Media Discourse
- Chapter 7: Counterpublics and the Role of Emotions
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
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