Media sociology and journalism : studies in truth and democracy /

Media sociology and journalism : studies in truth and democracy / Greg M. Nielsen.

While the alt right and post-truth attitudes render democracy fragile, so does professional journalism when it reports on the most vulnerable subjects in society but rarely addresses them as the imagined audience. A dialogical critique of divisions in news media, politics, and contemporary sociologi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Nielsen, Greg Marc, 1953- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2023.
Series:Key issues in modern sociology.
Subjects:
Mass media > Social aspects.
Journalism > Social aspects.
Truthfulness and falsehood > Social aspects.
Truthfulness and falsehood in mass media.
Democracy > Social aspects.
Democracy > Social aspects
Journalism > Social aspects
Mass media > Social aspects
Truthfulness and falsehood in mass media
Truthfulness and falsehood > Social aspects
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Between the posts
  • 1. Fake populism and news: freedom versus democracy
  • 2. Political theory: deliberative, agonistic and dialogic democracy
  • 3. Contemporary sociology, journalism and society
  • 4. Acts of journalism: truth, ghosts and migrant subjects
  • 5. Writing inequality into the urban commons
  • 6. Exotopy and cultural boundaries: the secular question in Quebec
  • Conclusion. Is another journalism possible?
  • References
  • Index.

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