<I am sure this will be of interest to many. Regards, Tanya>
Read the ECREA3 book Reclaiming the Media for free on www.intellectbooks.com
Every chapter of Volume 3 in the ECREA book
series, Reclaiming the Media: Communication
Rights and Democratic Media Roles, edited by Bart
Cammaerts and Nico Carpentier, is now available
to download as a PDF-file free from the Intellect website.
To read the chapters follow the link:
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/ppbooks.php?isbn=9781841501635
Scroll down to the book chapters and click on a chapter title.
About the book:
At the beginning of the 21st century, it hardly
goes uncontested anymore that media organisations
play an important role in democracy. The main
questions have now become whether the
contemporary media conjuncture offers enough to
our democracies, how their democratic investment
can be deepened and how our communication rights can be expanded.
Reclaiming the Media aims to look at four
thematic areas that structure the opportunities
for democratising (media) democracy. A first
section is devoted to citizenship and the public
spheres, giving special attention to the general
theme of communication rights. The second section
elaborates further on a notion central to
communication rights, namely that of participation.
The third section returns to the traditional
representational role in relation to democracy
and citizenship, scrutinizing and criticizing the
democratic efforts of contemporary journalism.
The fourth moves outside of the (traditional)
media system, and deals with the diversity of
media and communication strategies of activists.
Praise for the volume:
"The approach is both relevant and rich in
lessons [...] a useful overview that provides a
great deal of food for thought." – Gilles Le
Blanc, Communication and Strategies
"The collection presented here is a highly
readable, multifaceted update on the fundamental
relationship between media, democracy and civil
rights" – Marian T. Adolf in The Journal of International Communication.
Table of contents (with links to the chapters):
Part 1
Citizenship, the Public Sphere, and Media
by Bart Cammaerts
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/pdfs/9781841501635.1.pdf
Making a difference to media pluralism: a
critique of the pluralistic consensus in European media policy
by Kari Karppinen
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/pdfs/9781841501635.9.pdf
Communication and (e)democracy: assessing European e-democracy discourses
by Arjuna Tuzzi, Claudia Padovani, and Giorgia Nesti
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/pdfs/9781841501635.31.pdf
Reducing communicative inequalities: towards a pedagogy for inclusion
by Margit Böck
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/pdfs/9781841501635.66.pdf
Part 2
Participation and Media
by Nico Carpentier
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/pdfs/9781841501635.87.pdf
Citizen participation and local public spheres:
an agency and identity focussed approach to the
Tampere postal services conflict
by Auli Harju
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/pdfs/9781841501635.92.pdf
Towards fair participation: recruitment strategies in Demostation
by Egil G. Skogseth
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/pdfs/9781841501635.107.pdf
Representation and inclusion in the online debate: the issue of honor killings
by Tamara Witschge
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/pdfs/9781841501635.130.pdf
Part 3
Journalism, Media, and Democracy
by Nico Carpentier
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/pdfs/9781841501635.151.pdf
Coping with the agoraphobic media professional: a
typology of journalistic practices reinforcing democracy and participation
by Nico Carpentier
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/pdfs/9781841501635.157.pdf
Disobedient media – unruly citizens: governmental communication in crisis
by Hannu Nieminen
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/pdfs/9781841501635.176.pdf
On the dark side of democracy: the global imaginary of financial journalism
by Anu Kantola
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/pdfs/9781841501635.192.pdf
Part 4
Activism and the Media
by Bart Cammaerts
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/pdfs/9781841501635.217.pdf
Contesting global capital, new media, solidarity,
and the role of a social imaginary
by Natalie Fenton
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/pdfs/9781841501635.225.pdf
Civil Society Media at the WSIS: a new actor in
global communication governance?
by Arne Hintz
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/pdfs/9781841501635.243.pdf
Media and communication strategies of glocalized
activists: beyond media-centric thinking
by Bart Cammaerts
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/pdfs/9781841501635.265.pdf
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Participation and Media Production. Critical Reflections on Content Creation.
Edited by Nico Carpentier and Benjamin De Cleen
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