Democracy and Media in Europe

Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach is a theoretical reflection on the intersection of democracy and media, through a constructionist lens.

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Nico Carpentier is Extraordinary Professor at Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) and Visiting Professor at Tallinn University (Estonia) and at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (Suzhou, China). He was Vice-President of the European Communication Research and Education Association (2008-2012) and President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (2020-2024). His theoretical focus is on discourse theory, his research is situated in the relationship between communication, politics and culture, especially in social domains as war and conflict, ideology, participation and democracy. His latest monographs are The Discursive-Material Knot (2017) and Iconoclastic Controversies (2021). His last exhibition was The Mirror of Conflict photography exhibition, in October 2023 at the Energy Museum, Istanbul in Türkiye, and in October 2024 at the Hollar Gallery, Prague, in the Czech Republic.

Jeffrey Wimmer is Professor of Communication Science with an emphasis on media reality at the University of Augsburg, Germany. From 2008 to 2014, he was chairing the 'Communication and Democracy' section of the European Communication Research and Education Association, and from 2009 to 2015, the 'Sociology of Media Communication' section of the German Association of Communication Science. His research and teaching focuses on the sociology of media communication, public sphere and participation, mediatization and media change, digital games and virtual worlds. Recent edited book publications include (Mis-)Understanding Political Participation (2018, Routledge) and The Forgotten Subject (2023).

Klappentext

Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach is a theoretical reflection on the intersection of democracy and media, through a constructionist lens.

Inhalt

Introduction Part I: Democracy 1. Core Components of Democracy 2. Struggles over Democracy 3. Conditions of Possibility of Democracy 4. Threats to Democracy 5. A First Visual Summary Part II: Media and Democracy 6. Core Components of Media 7. The Roles of (European) Media in Democracy 8. Struggles over Media's Democratic Roles 9. Conditions of Possibility for Media's Democratic Roles 10. Threats to Media's Democratic Roles 11. A Second Visual Summary A brief conclusion References Index