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Media sociology and journalism : studies in truth and democracy / Greg M. Nielsen.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Nielsen, Greg Marc, 1953- author.
Contributor:
JSTOR (Online Service)
The Todd and Elizabeth Donovan Endowed Fund.
Series:
KEY ISSUES IN MODERN SOCIOLOGY.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Mass media--Social aspects.
Mass media.
Journalism--Social aspects.
Journalism.
Truthfulness and falsehood--Social aspects.
Truthfulness and falsehood.
Truthfulness and falsehood in mass media.
Democracy--Social aspects.
Democracy.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Place of Publication:
London ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2023.
Contents:
Cover
Half-Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Between the Posts
Political and Sociological Theory
Undoing Journalism
1 Fake Populism and News: Freedom versus Democracy
What Does Fake Populism Do?
Is Populism a Danger to Democracy?
Fake News: Questioning Reason, Truth and Democracy
But Aren't Lies Politicians Tell Fake News?
Corrupt Politicians, Fake News Media and Cancel Culture
2 Political Theory: Deliberative, Agonistic and Dialogic Democracy
Rawls: Liberal Theory of Democracy
Habermas: Discourse Theory of Democracy
Agonistic Democracy: For and Against
Dissensus Never Ends
How to construct time and the other
Toward Dialogic Democracy
3 Contemporary Sociology, Journalism and Society
Critical Sociology
Pragmatic sociology of critique
Explanation vs Description
Cultural Sociology
Civil sphere theory
Media sociology and trust
Latour's ANT
Out of this world versus terrestrial attractors
What and who do journalism
Conclusion
4 Acts of Journalism: Truth, Ghosts and Migrant Subjects
The Implied Audience
Coding Undecidables
On Immigration
Reading the Democracy Bias
Legal/Policy Contexts
The travel ban
Family separation
The pandemic
Third-Person Reported Speech: Some Limitations
Travel ban
First/Second Person and the Implied Audience
Family separations
5 Writing Inequality into the Urban Commons
Framing the Loophole
Recognition and the Urban Commons
The Information Commons
Coding Exclusion
The Fall of the Body into Poverty
Justice versus Law
6 Exotopy and Cultural Boundaries: The Secular Question in Quebec
Quebec and US Contexts
Quebec Society in Canadian Context
Framing Hospitality for Reasonable Accommodation
Exotopy: enemy or adversary?
(Dis)Organized affect: the personal, the political and the sociological
Conclusion: Deliberative or Dialogic Democracy?
Conclusion: Is Another Journalism Possible?
References
Index
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 07, 2023).
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from The Todd and Elizabeth Donovan Endowed Fund.
Other Format:
Print version: Nielsen, Greg Media Sociology and Journalism
ISBN:
9781839980626
1839980621
9781839980619
1839980613
Publisher Number:
99993153375
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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