Brian McNair
8Journalism as Public Sphere
Abstract: This article describes the origins of the concept of the public sphere, and its relationship both to democratic theory and to the normative expectations of liberal pluralist journalism. It then considers the revisions to the concept which have been necessitated by trends in the wider political culture, the political economy of the capitalist media and, most recently and still ongoing, the impact of digital technology and the internet
Keywords: journalism, public sphere, political communication, media, democracy
1Introduction
The concept of the public sphere is one of the most important and influential in the sociology of media and culture. For the study of journalism in particular, it provides ...
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