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Zusatztext “Everyone likes to talk, fewer like to listen. Fortunately, Stephen Coleman is wonderfully good at listening. In his book, Coleman listens to ordinary people discuss politics, telling us what they say but also how they wish to be heard. Coleman exhibits great generosity when doing so and, when combined with his own deft interpretations, a masterwork results. How People Talk About Politics is a book to be read but also a book to be savored.” Informationen zum Autor Stephen Coleman is Professor of Political Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. He is a leading figure of Political Communiation Studies, whose books include (with K. Ross) The Media and the Public: Them and Us in Media Discourse (2010) and (with J.G. Blumler)The Internet and Democratic Citizenship: Theory, Practice and Policy (2009).An exploration of the culture of political talk in Britain. Zusammenfassung During the Brexit referendum campaign it became clear how easily national conversations around politics could become raucous and bitter. This book explores the nature of talking about politically contentious issues and how our society can begin to develop a more constructive culture of political talk. Uniquely, this study focuses on citizens own experiences and reflections on developing, practising and evaluating their own political voices. Based on seventy in-depth interviews with a diverse range of people, Stephen Coleman explores the intricate nature of interpersonal political talk and what this means for public attitudes towards politics and how people negotiate their political identities. Engaging with a broad range of subjects from Political Communication to Sociology this book offers valuable insight into how the public can discuss politically turbulent topics in a meaningful and constructive way. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 – Political talk as social practiceChapter 2 – Biographical feelingsChapter 3 – Performing the political genreChapter 4 – Taking positions on BrexitChapter 5 – Unintelligible subjectsChapter 6 – We need to talk – but how? Appendix – About the research methodIndex...
