Flashcards in Democracy and the Media Deck (16)
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The Public Sphere
Place where people can have discussion and come to conclusions about issues, space in-between work and authority
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Jurgen Habermass
Conceptualized idea of the public sphere
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Media Institutions
regulation and deregulation of media (commercial interest, ownership)
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Media representation
How and what topics are represented (biases, who gets to speak)
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Social Structures
Multiple Spheres (class, race, gender)
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Public/counter public spheres
small communities that create their own public spheres by talking amongst themselves
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Social Interaction
Communication and interaction of different peoples (ideas filtered through people)
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Electoral Politics
government, voting, laws, taxes
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Cultural politics
beliefs, ideologies
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Legal Citizenship
granted rights of citizenship
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Good citizen
social contracts of citizenship (civic duties, follow rules, volunteer)
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Imagined Community
not having a strong connection with everyone, but still recognized as a collective community (nation, football fans)
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Cultural citizen
felling of belonging and acceptance of identity (secondhand citizens)
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Define a strong public sphere
A strong public sphere that works to uphold democracy can be developed or constrained through different kinds of media regulations; is dependent on what kinds of representations we see in the media; operates more realistically when we think about multiple publics based on social structures; has an impact through social interaction
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Jeffery Jones
Media and Citizenship
-assumptions of mediated citizenship
-look at media and politics from the bottom up (understand citizens)
-medium affects the message
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