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Media sociology and journalism : studies in truth and democracy / Greg M. Nielsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nielsen, Greg Marc, 1953- author.
- 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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