Critical Theory Approaches to Historical Questions of Media &Democracy : Towards Awareness for Making Communication, Media and Democracy Safer for People and Society

ISBN-13: 9783659887406 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 148 str.

Abdullahi Muhammad Doki

Opis

The questions of what to do with mass communication and mass media, and what mass communication and the mass media have done and are doing, or what mass communication and the mass media should do and not be doing, have always engaged scholars, policy makers, educators, foundations, governments, journalists and writers in all ages and different sociopolitical and religious dispensations. Due to their urgency, inevitability and relevance for all times, such questions have come to be known as the historical questions of communication, media and democracy, in a world where the dangers and benefits of mass communication and mass media are at door steps and our finger tips, but need not be allowed to overwhelm and ruin us. This book, citing Fuchs (2017) and Hardy (2014), provides a discursive situating of the historical questions of communication, media and democracy, into the need for continuous awareness for using communication, media and democracy for achieving better life for people and society as projected in the enduring humanitarian values that inspired the questions by Peters and Simonson (2004:1).

O autorze

Muhammad Doki, Abdullahi
About the Author Abdullahi Muhammad Doki is a writer and researcher with over ten years' experience in journalism practice. A native of Kano State, Nigeria, he graduated with Mass Communication degrees from Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria; and the Lagos State University, Lagos. A.M.Doki is currently PhD. student in Cyprus.