1st Edition

Mediated Citizenship

Edited By Karin Wahl-Jorgensen Copyright 2008
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

Previously published as a special issue of Social Semiotics , this book grapples with such questions as: What does it mean to be a citizen in contemporary societies? What role do mass media play in the making of citizenship? Drawing on ground-breaking work from scholars around the world known for their contributions to the study of media and politics, this volume covers a range of practices... Read more

Mediated Citizenship(s): An Introduction.  Do Crying Citizens Make Good Citizens? Media, Citizenship and Governmentality: Defining 'the Public' of Public Service Broadcasting.  Mediating Citizenship Through the Lens of Consumerism: Frames in the American Medicare Reform Debates of 2003-2004.  Invisible Centers: Boris Johnson, Authenticity, Cultural Citizenship and a Centrifugal Model of Media Power.  Mediated Citizenship and Digital Discipline: A Rhetoric of Control in a Campaign Blog.  From Active Audience to Media Citizenship: The Case of Post-Mao China. Mediating which Nation?  Citizenship and National Identities in the British Press.  CODEPINK Alert: Mediated Citizenship in the Public Sphere.  A Cultural Approach to the Study of Mediated Citizenship

Biography

Karin Wahl-Jorgensen is Senior Lecturer in the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. Her work on the relationship between citizenship, democracy and the media has appeared in more than 20 international journals. She is the author of Journalists and the public (Hampton Press, 2006) and Citizens or consumers? (Open University Press, 2005; with Justin Lewis and Sanna Inthorn).