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100	1		_aKeane, John, _95624 _d1949-
245	0		_aThe media and democracy / _bJohn Keane.
264			_aCambridge : _bPolity Press, _c1991.
300			_axiii, 202 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
504			_aIncludes index.
505	0		_aLiberty of the Press -- Deregulation -- The Democratic Leviathan -- Public Service Media? -- Democracy, Risk and Reversals.
520			_aIn this essay, John Keane rethinks the relationship between the media and democracy. He opens up and explores a cluster of vital questions: where did the modern ideals of republican democracy and 'liberty of the press' originate? Have they been destroyed during the twentieth century by new forms of state censorship, or the emergence of transnational media conglomerates, or the growth of electronic media? Do the new digital technologies, satellite broadcasting and the convergence of broadcasting and telecommunications hinder or help these ideals? Is the free and equal communication of citizens through the media a feasible ideal at the end of the twentieth century? While these questions have long been neglected in social science and in the high-pressured world of print and electronic journalism, Keane restores them to the centre of political analysis and debate. He challenges many conventional assumptions of journalists, academics and policymakers. His essay sets out a radically new account of the importance of the media to democracy and elaborates a new conception of the public service model of communications - a model which would expose invisible power, publicize risks and facilitate 'a genuine commonwealth of forms of life, tastes and opinions'. The Media and Democracy is a remarkable book. It will be widely appreciated by students of democracy, politics and the media, as well as by all those interested in the expanding importance of mass communications in contemporary society.
650		0	_95625 _aPress and politics
650		0	_9158 _aMass media _xPolitical aspects
650		0	_95626 _aFreedom of the press
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