Democracy and the Media Flashcards
The Public Sphere
Place where people can have discussion and come to conclusions about issues, space in-between work and authority
Jurgen Habermass
Conceptualized idea of the public sphere
Media Institutions
regulation and deregulation of media (commercial interest, ownership)
Media representation
How and what topics are represented (biases, who gets to speak)
Social Structures
Multiple Spheres (class, race, gender)
Public/counter public spheres
small communities that create their own public spheres by talking amongst themselves
Social Interaction
Communication and interaction of different peoples (ideas filtered through people)
Electoral Politics
government, voting, laws, taxes
Cultural politics
beliefs, ideologies
Legal Citizenship
granted rights of citizenship
Good citizen
social contracts of citizenship (civic duties, follow rules, volunteer)
Imagined Community
not having a strong connection with everyone, but still recognized as a collective community (nation, football fans)
Cultural citizen
felling of belonging and acceptance of identity (secondhand citizens)
Define a strong public sphere
A strong public sphere that works to uphold democracy can be developed or constrained through different kinds of media regulations; is dependent on what kinds of representations we see in the media; operates more realistically when we think about multiple publics based on social structures; has an impact through social interaction
Jeffery Jones
Media and Citizenship
- assumptions of mediated citizenship
- look at media and politics from the bottom up (understand citizens)
- medium affects the message
