New PDF release: Democracy and Media Decadence

By John Keane

ISBN-10: 1107041775

ISBN-13: 9781107041776

ISBN-10: 1107614570

ISBN-13: 9781107614574

we are living in a innovative age of communicative abundance during which many media strategies - from satellite tv for pc broadcasting to clever glasses and digital books - spawn nice fascination combined with pleasure. within the box of politics, hopeful speak of electronic democracy, cybercitizens and e-government has been flourishing. This publication admits the various exciting ways in which communicative abundance is essentially changing the contours of our lives and of our politics, usually for the higher. however it asks even if too little awareness has been paid to the troubling counter-trends, the decadent media advancements that inspire public silence and concentrations of limitless strength, so weakening the spirit and substance of democracy. Exploring examples of shrewdpermanent govt surveillance, marketplace censorship, spin strategies and back-channel public kinfolk, John Keane seeks to appreciate and clarify those developments, and the way most sensible to house them. Tackling a few difficult yet gigantic and fateful questions, Keane argues that 'media decadence' is deeply damaging for public life.

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