Rethinking the media as a public sphere / James Curran -- Goodbye, Hildy Johnson: the vanishing 'serious press' / Colin Sparks -- Selling consent: the public sphere as a televisual market-place / John M. Phelan -- Beyond balanced pluralism: broadcasting in Germany / Vincent Porter and Suzanne Hasselbach -- Bites and blips: chunk news, savvy talk and the bifurcation of American politics / Todd Gitlin --The public sphere and the use of news in a 'coalition' system of government / Paolo Mancini -- Musical chairs? The three public spheres in Poland / Karol Jakubowicz -- Discourses on politics: talking about public issues in the United States and Denmark / Ann N. Crigler and Klaus Bruhn Jensen -- The global newsroom: convergences and diversities in the globalization of television news / Michael Gurevitch, Mark R. Levy and Itzhak Roeh -- A tyranny of intimacy? Women, femininity and television news / Liesbet van Zoonen -- Tales of tellyland: the popular press and television in the UK / Ian Connell.
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"Communication and Citizenship addresses a question increasingly at the center of academic and journalistic deabte: to what extent are the media able to help citizens in modern societies learn more about the world, debate their responses to it, and reach informed decisions about what courses of action to take? Can the media play a role in the formation of a "public sphere" when public service broadcasting is under attack, and the popular press plays to"the market" with a steady stream of celebrity gossip and sensationalized reporting? Contributors to the volume each concentrate on one aspect of the role and future of the public sphere in the United States and Europe, both East and West. Topics discussed include American politics and television news, feminist perspectives on the public sphere, the Polish media after Stalinism, and the popular press and television in the U. K." -- Half t.p.