Media and participation : a site of ideological-democratic struggle / Nico Carpentier.
"Participation has become fashionable again, but at the same time it has always played a crucial role in our contemporary societies, and it has been omnipresent in a surprisingly large number of societal fields. In the case of the media sphere, the present-day media conjuncture is now considere...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Bristol ; Chicago :
Intellect,
2011.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book JSTOR Open Access |
| Summary: | "Participation has become fashionable again, but at the same time it has always played a crucial role in our contemporary societies, and it has been omnipresent in a surprisingly large number of societal fields. In the case of the media sphere, the present-day media conjuncture is now considered to be the most participatory ever, but media participation has had a long and intense history. To deal with these paradoxes, this book looks at participation as a structurally unstable concept and as the object of a political-ideological struggle that makes it oscillate between minimalist and maximalist versions"--Page 4 of cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (405 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1841505242 9781841505244 |