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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Zizi A. Papacharissi (Department of Broadcasting, Telecommunications, and Mass Media, Temple University)Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Polity Press Dimensions: Width: 14.90cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.20cm Weight: 0.281kg ISBN: 9780745645254ISBN 10: 0745645259 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 25 June 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii 1 Contemporary Democracies, Civic Engagement, and the Media 1 Media and the mythology of the new 7 Old and new democracy 11 The conditions of contemporary democracy 12 A new(er) civic vernacular 15 2 Public and Private Expression in Contemporary Democracies 25 The dichotomy of public and private over time 26 The dichotomy of public and private at present 37 Privacy as commodity 42 A trichotomy: the social 48 3 Converged Media, Converged Audiences, and Converged Publics 51 Convergence in everyday life 53 Convergence of technologies 61 Convergence of spaces 68 Convergence of practices 74 Technology as the architecture of the new 78 4 The Question of Citizenship in a Converged Environment 80 A long history of imperfect citizenship 81 The past and contemporary citizenship modalities 88 The liquid citizen: a combined model of fl exible citizenship 107 5 The Public Sphere, Expired? On the Democratizing Potential of Convergent Technologies 112 The public sphere in contemporary democracies 113 Access to information 120 Reciprocity 121 Commercialization 123 A new kind of public 125 6 A Private Sphere 131 Five new civic habits 138 1 The networked self and the culture of remote connectivity 138 2 A new narcissism: blogging 144 3 The rebirth of satire and subversion: YouTube 150 4 Social media news aggregation and the plurality of collaborative fi ltering 152 5 The agonistic pluralism of online activism 157 The private sphere and the networked citizen 161 References 168 Index 194ReviewsThis is a deeply thoughtful book that asks a genuinely important questionNDo the new media empower us or do they trap us in our own cocoons, cutting us off from meaningful contact with others? Papacharissi doesn't let the reader off easily. Insistently, beguilingly, she brings up uncomfortable issuesNWhy are blogs so narcissistic? What happens politically when YouTube goes beyond the pale?Nand she never settles for easy answers. If you care about politics, if you care about modernity, read this book. Roderick P. Hart, University of Texas at Austin Papacharissi is a pioneer in the study of democracy and how it is practiced in the digital age. A Private Sphere is a deep, thoughtful exploration of citizenship, information, and technology at a moment of great fluidity. Anyone with an interest in how media shape political culture would do well to engage the arguments of this terrific book. Susan Herbst, Georgia Tech An thoughtful and thought-provoking book. Papacharissi's argument that the convergence of technology, practices and spaces is opening a private sphere as the locus for reworked modes of citizenship is an intriguing and important one. Read this book! Charles Whitney, Northwestern University Author InformationZizi Papacharissi is Professor and Head of the Department of Communication, University of Illinois-Chicago. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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