Author(s): Simone Chambers (Editor, Contributor), Anne Costain (Editor), James Bohman (Contributor), Andrew Calabrese (Contributor), Heather Fraizer (Contributor), Roderick P. Hart (Contributor), Gerard A. Hauser (Contributor), Shanto Iyengar (Contributor), Alison M. Jaggar (Contributor), Mark Kingwell (Contributor), Doug McAdam (Contributor), James W. Nickel (Contributor), Phil Weiser (Contributor)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication Date: September 20, 2000
Language: English
Print length: 232 pages
ISBN-10: 0847698114
ISBN-13: 9780847698110
Book Description
Is deliberative democracy the ideal goal of free speech? How do social movement organizations, activists, and political candidates use the media to frame their discourse? What responsibilities does the media have in maintaining or promoting democracy? In this broadly interdisciplinary volume, top scholars in communication, political science, sociology, law, and philosophy offer new perspectives on these and other intersections within democratic discourse and media. Interweaving elements of social, political, and communication theory, they take on First Amendment and legal issues, privacy rights, media effects and agenda setting, publicity, multiculturalism, gender issues, universalism and global culture, and the rhetoric of the body, among other topics. This unique book provides a foundation for evaluating the current state of democratic discourse and will be of interest to students and scholars of deliberative democracy across the social sciences.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Concerned with the intersection and interdependence of public deliberation, democracy, and a politically free but responsible mass media, this volume of essays by prominent scholars in a variety of fields constitutes an important contribution to the literature on the wellsprings and safeguards of free speech, democracy, and civil society in the literally heavily-mediated social world of today. Particularly illuminating and provocative is the book’s interdisciplinary discussion of the ways in which the media is and can be used in the service of deliberative equality within the public sphere—and of the ways in which the media can function both to facilitate and inhibit deliberative democracy. (Snow, David A.)
Chambers and Costain have assembled an amazing variety of scholars on the subjects of media content and dynamics, democracy, and activism. The blending of approaches and subjects within the book makes for an interesting as well as much needed compilation. (Davenport, Christian)
This book explores a number of key debates within deliberative democracy. (
Political Theory)
A winning combination of social theory, empiricism, and critical good sense by a diverse and very impressive array of contributors. (Simons, Herbert W.)
About the Author
Simone Chambers is associate professor of political science at the University of Colorado.
Anne Costain is professor of political science, director of the Keller Center for the Study of the First Amendment, and associate dean for social sciences at the University of Colorado.
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