UID:
almafu_9961310517602883
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 209 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781839980619
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1839980613
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9781839980626
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1839980621
Series Statement:
Key issues in modern sociology
Content:
〈i〉Media Sociology and Journalism〈/i〉 is a dialogue on contemporary society as defined through news media, politics and contemporary sociological theory. The tenacity of deeply opposing truth claims in politics and in journalism exposes the current fragility of democracy as a type of society and regime of power. Debates are reviewed on competing explanations of post truth attitudes, the rise of populism, fake news, conspiracy theories, neoliberalism, nihilism, white nationalism and the flights from and to democracy. Focus is on the tenacity of deeply opposing truth claims where each side takes the other's claim to be an existential threat. A dialogical critique of divisions in news media, politics and contemporary sociological theory provides an alternative way forward as right populism, fake news and post truth attitudes render democracy fragile. It is argued that professional journalism also contributes to this fragility when it reports or opines on the most vulnerable subjects in society but does not address them as their imagined audience. The fragility at the heart of democracy, the fine line that once crossed separates freedom from equality or rule by the people from authoritarian demagogues, are further examined through case studies of mainstream acts of journalism on the themes of immigration, urban poverty and cultural diversity.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Nov 2023).
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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 -- Family separation -- The pandemic -- First/Second Person and the Implied Audience -- The travel ban -- Family separations -- The pandemic -- 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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781839980602
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1839980605
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
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Sociology
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781839980619/type/BOOK
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
