Media and Citizenship : : Between Marginalisation and Participation / / ed. by Herman Wasserman, Anthea Garman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Anciano, Fiona,; Boyte, Harry C.,; Bracknell, Clint,; Buchanan, Jennifer,; Collard, Len,; Cumming, Ingrid,; Dahlgren, Peter,; Dreher, Tanja,; Friedman, Steven,; Garman, Anthea,; Hartley, John,; Haupt, Adam,; Iqani, Mehita,; Lieres, Bettina von,; Lucy, Niall,; Malila, Vanessa,; Mufamadi, Azwihangwisi,; Piper, Laurence,; Robins, Steven,; Scott, Kim,; Vanderhaeghen, Yves,; Wasserman, Herman,
• HerausgeberIn: Garman, Anthea,; Wasserman, Herman,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2017]; HSRC Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (241 p.)

Challenges assumptions about the relationship between the media and democracy in highly unequal societies like postapartheid South Africa.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part 1: The media–citizenship nexus
• 1 Citizens and journalists: The possibilities of co-creating the democracy we want
• 2 Listening: A normative approach to transform media and democracy
• 3 Democracy and political participation: The ambivalence of the Web
• Part 2: The media–democracy problematic
• 4 Speaking power’s truth: South African media in the service of the suburbs
• 5 ‘Back to the people’ journalism: Journalists as public storytellers
• 6 A better life for all? Consumption and citizenship in post-apartheid media culture
• 7 ‘Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument’: Reason, emotion and affect in the post-apartheid public sphere
• 8 The tale of two publics: Media, political representation and citizenship in Hout Bay, Cape Town
• 9 ‘Non-poor only’: Culture jamming and the limits of free speech in South Africa
• Part 3: Acts of citizenship
• 10 Could a ‘Noongarpedia’ form the basis for an emerging form of citizenship in the age of new media?
• 11 The media, Equal Education and school learners: ‘Political listening’ in the South African education crisis
• 12 Innocence: A free pass into the moral commonweal
• 13 We are not the ‘born frees’: The real political and civic lives of eight young South Africans
• Contributors
• Index