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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101107614570

ISBN-139781107614574

eBay Product ID (ePID)167396124

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Number of Pages261 Pages

Publication NameDemocracy and Media Decadence

LanguageEnglish

SubjectPolitical Process / General, Communication Studies, Globalization, Comparative Politics, Political Ideologies / Democracy, Information Technology

Publication Year2013

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaComputers, Political Science, Language Arts & Disciplines

AuthorJohn Keane

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight15.2 Oz

Item Length8.9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Vanquishing received wisdom and resisting cliché, John Keane charts the transformative impact of communicative abundance. Invoking McCluhan, Derrida, Curran and others, he perceptively constructs a significant vision: an emerging "monitory democracy" dependent on new roles for media and very new relationships between media institutions, technology and society." -Monroe E. Price, Director for the Center for Global Communications Studies at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, and Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 'Vanquishing received wisdom and resisting cliché, John Keane charts the transformative impact of communicative abundance. Invoking McCluhan, Derrida, Curran and others, he perceptively constructs a significant vision: an emerging 'monitory democracy' dependent on new roles for media and very new relationships between media institutions, technology and society.' Monroe E. Price, Director, Center for Global Communications Studies, University of Pennsylvania, and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, "John Keane doesn't answer all your questions about the new media and democracy - but he makes it impossible for you to credit those who pretend to. In energetic, sometimes gripping, prose he offers indispensable conceptual tools (particularly "monitory democracy") for a fresh look at where democracy stands in an age of communicative abundance teetering on the edge of communicative decay. A brilliant work!" -Michael Schudson Professor, Columbia Journalism School, 'John Keane doesn't answer all your questions about the new media and democracy - but he makes it impossible for you to credit those who pretend to. In energetic, sometimes gripping, prose he offers indispensable conceptual tools (particularly 'monitory democracy') for a fresh look at where democracy stands in an age of communicative abundance teetering on the edge of communicative decay. A brilliant work!' Michael Schudson, Columbia Journalism School, Advance praise: 'Vanquishing received wisdom and resisting clich, John Keane charts the transformative impact of communicative abundance. Invoking McCluhan, Derrida, Curran and others, he perceptively constructs a significant vision: an emerging 'monitory democracy' dependent on new roles for media and very new relationships between media institutions, technology and society.' Monroe E. Price, Director, Center for Global Communications Studies, University of Pennsylvania, and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Advance praise: 'With impressive intellectual breadth and rich analytic insight, John Keane's engaging new book moves us beyond conventional ways of thinking about media and democracy. Addressing key debates, his writing is, as always, accessible, compelling, and edifying.' Peter Dahlgren, Lund University, 'With impressive intellectual breadth and rich analytic insight, John Keane's engaging new book moves us beyond conventional ways of thinking about media and democracy. Addressing key debates, his writing is, as always, accessible, compelling, and edifying.' Peter Dahlgren, Lund University, Advance praise: 'John Keane doesn't answer all your questions about the new media and democracy - but he makes it impossible for you to credit those who pretend to. In energetic, sometimes gripping, prose he offers indispensable conceptual tools (particularly 'monitory democracy') for a fresh look at where democracy stands in an age of communicative abundance teetering on the edge of communicative decay. A brilliant work!' Michael Schudson, Columbia Journalism School, Advance praise: 'Vanquishing received wisdom and resisting cliché, John Keane charts the transformative impact of communicative abundance. Invoking McCluhan, Derrida, Curran and others, he perceptively constructs a significant vision: an emerging 'monitory democracy' dependent on new roles for media and very new relationships between media institutions, technology and society.' Monroe E. Price, Director, Center for Global Communications Studies, University of Pennsylvania, and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, "With impressive intellectual breadth and rich analytic insight, John Keane's engaging new book moves us beyond conventional ways of thinking about media and democracy. Addressing key debates, his writing is, as always, accessible, compelling, and edifying." -Peter Dahlgren, Lund University, "Vanquishing received wisdom and resisting clich, John Keane charts the transformative impact of communicative abundance. Invoking McCluhan, Derrida, Curran and others, he perceptively constructs a significant vision: an emerging "monitory democracy" dependent on new roles for media and very new relationships between media institutions, technology and society." -Monroe E. Price, Director for the Center for Global Communications Studies at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, and Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal302.23

Table Of Content1. Communicative abundance; 2. Monitory democracy; 3. Media decadence; 4. Democracy's opponents; 5. Why freedom of public communication?

SynopsisWe live in a revolutionary age of communicative abundance in which many media innovations - from satellite broadcasting to smart glasses and electronic books - spawn great fascination mixed with excitement. In the field of politics, hopeful talk of digital democracy, cybercitizens and e-government has been flourishing. This book admits the many thrilling ways that communicative abundance is fundamentally altering the contours of our lives and of our politics, often for the better. But it asks whether too little attention has been paid to the troubling counter-trends, the decadent media developments that encourage public silence and concentrations of unlimited power, so weakening the spirit and substance of democracy. Exploring examples of clever government surveillance, market censorship, spin tactics and back-channel public relations, John Keane seeks to understand and explain these trends, and how best to deal with them. Tackling some tough but big and fateful questions, Keane argues that 'media decadence' is deeply harmful for public life., In this revolutionary age of communicative abundance and media innovation, our lives and our politics have been altered in many ways for the better. John Keane targets the troubling countertrends and explains why 'media decadence' is actually harmful for democracy.

LC Classification NumberP96.I5