MEDIATED CITIZENSHIP by Karin Wahl-Jorgensen (Editor) ( 9780415420846 )

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MEDIATED CITIZENSHIP

By:

Karin Wahl-Jorgensen (Editor)

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0415420849

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9780415420846

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

10 January, 2007

Pages:

200

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Earlier published as a special issue of "Social Semiotics", this book addresses such questions as: What does it mean to be a citizen in contemporary societies? What role do mass media play in the making of citizenship? It shows that we cannot fully understand citizenship without looking at the workings of power in and through mediated discourse.

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Previously published as a special issue of Social Semiotics, this book grapples with such questions as: What does it mean to be a citizen in contemporary societies? What role do mass media play in the making of citizenship? Drawing on ground-breaking work from scholars around the world known for their contributions to the study of media and politics, this volume covers a range of practices of mediated citizenship, with chapters studying the mourning after the deaths of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh in the Netherlands and notions of authenticity in letters written to British Conservative politician Boris Johnson. The authors explore discourses of nationalism in the English and Scottish Press, and examine struggles over definitions of the public in Australian public service broadcasting and the US Medicare debate. Emerging possibilities for mediated citizenship are assessed in three studies of online activism and participation in the US and China. The book builds on conventional understandings of citizenship and the public sphere, calling attention to the need for understanding affective attachments to politics.Finally, it demonstrates that we cannot fully understand citizenship without looking at the concrete workings of power in and through mediated discourse.

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