Habermas and the media /

Jürgen Habermas is arguably the most influential social theorist and philosopher of the twentieth century, and his imprint on media and communication studies extends well into the twenty-first. This book lucidly unpacks Habermas' sophisticated contributions to the study of media centring around...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wessler, Hartmut, 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2018.
Series:Theory and media.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The bourgeois public sphere and its critics
  • Nurturing communicative action
  • Media for deliberative democracy
  • Mediated public spheres
  • Deliberative qualities of news and discussion media
  • Non-deliberative media discourse
  • Counterpublics and the role of emotions.