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New Book: Media and Participation. A site of ideological-democratic struggle
By Nico Carpentier

http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4744/

Intellect
ISBN 9781841504070

405 pages

Short Description
Participation has become fashionable again, but at the same time it has 
always played a crucial role in our contemporary societies, and it has 
been omnipresent in a surprisingly large number of societal fields. In 
the case of the media sphere, the present-day media conjuncture is now 
considered to be the most participatory ever, but media participation 
has had a long and intense history. To deal with these paradoxes, this 
book looks at participation as a structurally unstable concept and as 
the object of a political-ideological struggle that makes it oscillate 
between minimalist and maximalist versions. This struggle is analysed in 
theoretical reflections in five fields (democracy, arts, development, 
spatial planning and media) and in eight different cases of media 
practice. Among the case studies are the first interactive film, 
reality-tv and audience discussion programmes, community radio stations, 
an alternative radio exchange database and a series of vlogs and online 
video films. These case studies also show participation's close 
connection to power, identity, organization, technology and quality.


Chapter titles

Introduction

Chapter 1: Defining Participation: An Interdisciplinary Overview
1. Democratic theory and participation
2. Beyond democratic theory
3. Audience participation and communication (rights)

Chapter 2: Keyword ­ Power
1. A conceptual introduction
2. Case 1: Management in the north Belgian audience discussion programme
Jan Publiek
3. Case 2: Barometer and the post-political

Chapter 3: Keyword ­ Identity
1. A conceptual introduction
2. Case 1: The construction of ordinary people in Jan Publiek
3. Case 2: Temptation Island ­ reality TV and minimalist participation

Chapter 4: Keyword ­ Organization
1. A conceptual introduction
2. Case 1: BBC¹s Video Nation
3. Case 2: RadioSwap

Chapter 5: Keyword ­ Technology
1. A conceptual introduction
2. Case: Kinoautomat ­ One man and his house. The lack of uptake of
participatory technology

Chapter 6: Keyword ­ Quality
1. A conceptual introduction
2. Case 1: 16plus, Barometer and the rejection of participatory products
3. Case 2: Alternative and community media constructions of quality:
Negotiated quality

Chapter 7: A Short Conclusion



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NEW BOOK:
Media and Participation. A site of ideological-democratic struggle
(Intellect, 2011, 409p.)
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4744/
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