The Liquefaction of Publicness: Communication, Democracy and the Public Sphere in the Internet Age

ISBN-13: 9780367586539 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 270 str.

Slavko Splichal

Opis

This book celebrates the 25th anniversary of the journal Javnost – The Public, bringing together topical discussions in contemporary media and communication research.

Spis treści

Part I: Publicness and the Public Sphere in the Internet Age  1. Publicness–Privateness: The Liquefaction of "The Great Dichotomy"  2. Debunking Deference: The Delusions of Unmediated Reality in the Contemporary Public Sphere  3. Media, Knowledge and Trust: The Deepening Epistemic Crisis of Democracy  4. Fake Democracy: The Limits of Public Sphere Theory  5. Visibility and the Public Sphere: A Normative Conceptualisation  6. Refeudalisation Revisited: The Destruction of Deliberative Democracy  7. Standpoint, Mediation and the Working-Class Public Sphere  8. Dissonant and Disconnected Public Spheres as Challenge for Political Communication Research  9. A Youth-Driven Virtual Civic Public Sphere for the Arab World  10. Family Feud: Who’s Still Fighting about Dewey and Lippmann? Part II: Democracy and the Crisis of Public Communication  11. The Crisis of Public Communication, 1995–2017  12. Democracy and the Internet: A Retrospective  13. Post-Globalisation  14. Modern Political Communication and Web 2.0 in Representative Democracies  15. Revisiting Digital News Audiences with a Political Magnifying Glass  16. Translation as Politics  17. The Alt-Right as a Community of Discourse  18. Post-Communism, Democratisation and the Media: (Nearly) Thirty Years On  19. Putin’s Slangy Newspeak as a Paradox of His Public Communication  20. Digital Media, Contentious Politics and Party Systems in Italy and Spain  21. The Detached Observer: On a Necessary Change to the Self-Image of Journalists in the Digital World  Part III: Communication and Media Research in Scientific and Social Practice  22. The Double Hermeneutics of Communication Research  23. Fast-Capitalist Veils from Communication Theory for "The Public" and Its "Discourse"  24. Reframing the Paradox of Pluralism as a Communication Problem  25. New Technologies, Old Questions: The Enduring Issues of Communications Research  26. A Critical Perspective on the Post-Internet World  27. Communication Research: Resignation or Optimism?  28. On Human Communication  29. Studying Political Economies of Communication in the Twenty-First Century  30. Expanding the Epistemological Horizon: Institutionalised Visual Knowledge and Human Rights  31. Researching Fake News: A Selective Examination of Empirical Studies  32. Gendering Media Policy Research and Communication Governance

O autorze

Slavko Splichal is Professor of Communication and Public Opinion in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and a fellow of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is Founder and Director of the European Institute for Communication and Culture and Editor of its journal Javnost - The Public.