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Zusatztext Anyone who wants to understand how news can help inform citizens, sustain communities and enable democratic politics should read this book. It develops an original and powerful ecological approach to deliver a rich and nuanced analysis that will interest citizens, journalists and scholars alike. 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). Klappentext How does news circulate in a major post-industrial city? And how in turn are identities and differences formed and mediated through this circulation? This seminal work is the first to offer an empirical examination, and trace a city's pattern of, news circulation.Encompassing a comprehensive range of practices involved in producing, circulating and consuming 'news' and recognizing the various ways in which individuals and groups may find out, follow and discuss local issues and events, The Mediated City critiques thinking that takes the centrality of certain news media as an unquestioned starting point. By doing so, it opens up a discussion: do we know what news is? What types of media constitute it? And why does it matter? Vorwort A radically alternative exploration of news circulation that asks: do we even know what news is ? Zusammenfassung A radically alternative exploration ofnews circulation that asks: do we even know what news is? Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: A New News Ecology 1. Making Sense of/in the City 2. A Week in News 3. How Citizens Receive the News 4. How People Make Sense of the City 5. The Mainstream Providers of Local News 6. Citizen News-Makers and News Practices 7. 'Down there in Chapeltown' 8. Mediating Democratic Accountability: The Case of the Care Home Closures 9. Local News: A Different Story Appendices...
