Culture and democracy: media, space, and representation

The media and popular culture are often identified as bearing primary responsibility for the decline of active citizenship and the decay of democratic institutions. Media culture is charged with eroding the capacity of citizens to trust in their public institutions and encouraging widespread civic a...

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1. Verfasser: Barnett, Clive 1950-2021 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Tuscaloosa The University of Alabama Press 2003
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Zusammenfassung:The media and popular culture are often identified as bearing primary responsibility for the decline of active citizenship and the decay of democratic institutions. Media culture is charged with eroding the capacity of citizens to trust in their public institutions and encouraging widespread civic apathy. Barnett critically evaluates such widespread judgments. Through a triangulation of the ideas of Derrida, Foucault, and Habermas, he argues that deconstruction, poststructuralism, and critical theory converge around shared concerns for the possibilities of democratic public life in a globalizing age. Focusing on the United States, Europe, and South Africa, Barnett demonstrates the indispensability of concepts of the public sphere, representation, and spatiality in a cultural democracy
Beschreibung:vii, 225 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:0817313877
9780817313876
0817350772
9780817350772