Television and the Public Sphere: Citizenship, Democracy and the Media

by Peter Dahlgren

Book Overview

In this broad-ranging text, Peter Dahlgren clarifies the underlying theoretical concepts of civil society and the public sphere, and relates these to a critical analysis of the practice of television as journalism, as information and as entertainment. He demonstrates the limits and the possibilities of the television medium and the formats of popular journalism. These issues are linked to the potential of the audience to interpret or resist messages,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803989237
• ISBN13: 9780803989238
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"