Deliberation Across Deeply Divided Societies
From the local level to international politics, deliberation helps to increase mutual understanding and trust, in order to arrive at political decisions of high epistemic value and legitimacy. This book gives deliberation a dynamic dimension, analysing how levels of deliberation rise and fall in group discussions, and introducing the concept of ‘deliberative transformative moments’ and how they can be applied to deeply divided societies, where deliberation is most needed but also most difficult to work.
Communication and Child Domestic Labor
The book analyzes the representation of Domestic Child Work (TID) in the media and brings reports of domestic workers and former domestic workers regarding their experiences, in the context of the state of Pará. In addition to a reception research, the work investigates how discourses constructed and in circulation in these two communicational scopes take place in a way that reverberates in the politicization of domestic child labor.
International Encyclopaedia of Political Communication
Explores pertinent/salient topics within political science, sociology, psychology, communication and many other disciplines; theory, empirical research and academic as well as professional debate are widely covered in this truly international and comparative work; provides clear definitions and explanations which are both cross-national and cross-disciplinary by nature; offers an unprecedented level of authority, accuracy and balance, with contributions from leading international experts in their associated fields.
Recognition and the Media
This collection examines Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition and the crucial role played by the media in struggles for recognition. It brings together debates on controversial aspects of Honneth’s work and a set of intriguing empirical studies including with slum-dwelling adolescents, leprosy patients and women exposed to child labor exploitation.
Deliberation, the Media and Political Talk
In recent years, democratic theory has taken a deliberative turn and one central question that needs to be answered is how to connect face-to-face conversations and deliberations in particular forums to broader discussions in the larger society. Working within the cutting edges of deliberative theories, this book surveys the role of the mass media in the deliberative system and investigates, through a set of empirical cases, a range of key problems in the media arena: the interplay between arguing and strategic maneuvering; public demands for accountability; emotional appeal for deliberation; tensions between agonistic and diplomatic deliberation; and the public construction of general claims.
Public Sphere Reconsidered: Theories and Practices
Public Sphere Reconsidered: theories and practices is a book that compiles two-day conference, which took place on 19 and 20 May 2011 at University of Beira Interior in Covilhã, Portugal, where the concept of public sphere was analyzed and debated by international recognized experts and researchers from around the world. From the most exciting texts about the idea of public sphere to the relations between journalism, ICTs, rhetoric and public sphere, this book presents texts with a cross-disciplinary approach and a comparative methodology regarding different related issues and new tools of communication.
Internet and Political Participation in Brazil
This book intends to contribute to the improvement of studies in Communication and Democracy in Brazil. More specifically, the proposal is to examine the participatory attributions that the State and society confer on the Internet. The work was divided into three parts. Part I of the book is called “Political Participation and the Internet: Fundamental Concepts.” Part II is called “Political System, Participation and the Internet.” Part III, for its part, is entitled “Civil Sphere, Participation and Internet”.
Communication and Democracy – Problems and Perspectives
The relations between mass communication and democratic political processes, which have been recently examined in the international arena by a considerable number of authors, have not yet obtained the same space in Brazilian literature. Lately, issues related to the links between politics and new media, particularly the internet, have attracted many researchers, especially the younger ones. With few exceptions, problems relating to communication and democracy have never received so much attention.
Media and Deliberation
Is the role of mass communication in the renewal of democracy? What, for deliberative democracy, do the languages, resources and agents of mass communication represent? How does mass communication contribute to the growth of democracy?
Against the current of media malaise, this book adopts a positive outlook: yes, mass communication contributes to strengthening and strengthening democracy.
Between the spectacle, the party and the argument: media, strategic communication and social mobilization
Between the spectacle and the mediaThe author proposes to think as dimensions of spectacle, party and argumentation, while communicative processes, establish relations and modalities of participation and interaction with the subjects, in mobilizing processes. Focusing on the relationship between these dimensions and the political call of the subjects for the public deliberation of issues that affect all, the author enriches the reflection on the relationship between communication and social mobilization in the contemporary democratic scenario.
Media, Public Sphere and Collective Identity
At present a set of themes present in contemporary life, addressing phenomena that seem familiar to us – the public sphere, the media and their modes of operation, their relations with politics and the constitution of social identities – this book expects from each reader a reflection of its own, autonomous, that glimpses answers, more than certainties, and that provides new possibilities for the subjects treated and for their elucidation.
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