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Democracy and Media Decadence (Hardcover, New)
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Democracy and Media Decadence (Hardcover, New)
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We live in a revolutionary age of communicative abundance in which
many media innovations - from satellite broadcasting to smart
glasses and electronic books - spawn great fascination mixed with
excitement. In the field of politics, hopeful talk of digital
democracy, cybercitizens and e-government has been flourishing.
This book admits the many thrilling ways that communicative
abundance is fundamentally altering the contours of our lives and
of our politics, often for the better. But it asks whether too
little attention has been paid to the troubling counter-trends, the
decadent media developments that encourage public silence and
concentrations of unlimited power, so weakening the spirit and
substance of democracy. Exploring examples of clever government
surveillance, market censorship, spin tactics and back-channel
public relations, John Keane seeks to understand and explain these
trends, and how best to deal with them. Tackling some tough but big
and fateful questions, Keane argues that 'media decadence' is
deeply harmful for public life.
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