The Media and The Public by Stephen Coleman, Karen Ross - 9781405160414

The Media and The Public\""Them\"" and \""Us\"" in Media Discourse\nAuthor(s): Stephen Coleman, Karen Ross\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9781405160414, 978-1405160414\nSynopsis\nThe Media and the Public explores the ways a range of media, from the press to television to the Internet, have constructed and represented the public.\n\nProvides a new synthesis of recent research exploring the relationship between media and their publics\nIdentifies ways in which different publics are subverting the gatekeeping of mainstream media in order to find a voice and communicate with others\nSituates contemporary media-public discourse and relationships in an historical context in order to show the origin of contemporary public/political engagement\nCreates a theoretical expansion on the role of the media in accessing or denying the articulation of public voices, and the ways in which publics are harnessing new media formats t