Deliberation, Democracy, and the MediaSimone Chambers, Anne N. Costain Is deliberative democracy the ideal goal of free speech? How do social movement organizations, activists, and political candidates use the media to frame their discourse? What responsibilities does the media have in maintaining or promoting democracy? In this broadly interdisciplinary volume, top scholars in communication, political science, sociology, law, and philosophy offer new perspectives on these and other intersections within democratic discourse and media. Interweaving elements of social, political, and communication theory, they take on First Amendment and legal issues, privacy rights, media effects and agenda setting, publicity, multiculturalism, gender issues, universalism and global culture, and the rhetoric of the body, among other topics. This unique book provides a foundation for evaluating the current state of democratic discourse and will be of interest to students and scholars of deliberative democracy across the social sciences. |
Contents
Free Speech Democratic Deliberation and Valuing Types of Speech | 3 |
Promoting Informed Deliberation and a First Amendment Doctrine for a Digital Age Toward a New Regulatory Regime for Broadcast Regulation | 11 |
Deliberative Equality and the Media | 25 |
Multicultural Democracy | 27 |
The Division of Labor in Democratic Discourse Media Experts and Deliberative Democracy | 47 |
The Means of Communication and the Discourse on Sovereignty | 65 |
News Reporting and Coverage | 83 |
The Unheralded Functions of Campaign News | 85 |
Movement Strategy and Dramaturgic Framing in Democratic States The Case of the American Civil Rights Movement | 117 |
Body Rhetoric Conflicted Reporting of Bodies in Pain | 135 |
Media Portrayal of Second Wave Feminist Groups | 155 |
Culture and Rhetoric | 175 |
The Banality of Evil the Evil of Banality | 177 |
A Culture of Publicity | 193 |
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Media Effects Paradigms for the Analysis of Local Television News | 107 |
Media Representation of Social Movements | 115 |
About the Contributors | 241 |
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