Media Engagement

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-01661-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 219 g

Reihe: Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies

Written with media students in mind, this accessible book provides both students and researchers with a new perspective on how to research engagement, not as a metric but as a marker of power relations.

This book navigates the reader through a tighter analytical notion of engagement within an understanding of media, culture and democracy. Dahlgren and Hill offer a new definition of engagement as an energising internal force, and as such a powerful means to further human agency. From this definition, the book builds a generative theory of engagement as a nexus of relations we make and break with media on a daily basis, with examples from political activism, news and disinformation, and the global pandemic. Dahlgren and Hill identify five parameters of engagement in order to understand the relations we have with media across changing public and mediated spheres. This new perspective offers students and researchers pathways for investigating the meaning of media engagement as a resource for living.

It will be particularly useful for undergraduate courses on media audiences and publics, political communication and democracy, media and cultural theory, journalism, and for media, communication and sociology studies more broadly.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dahlgren, Peter

Hill, Annette

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by John Corner Part I: Mapping Engagement 1. Introduction: Understanding Media Engagement 2. Parameters of Media Engagement Part II: Changing Public Settings for Engagement 3. Vectors of Media and Political Engagement 4. Public Spheres and their Contingencies Part III: Case Studies in Public Knowledge and Political Engagement 5. Audience Engagement: Researching News in Southeast Asia 6. News Relations 7. The Belarus Protests: A Case Study of Political Engagement 8. Conclusion: Contingencies of Media Engagement Appendix: News Engagement Interview Guide

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Dahlgren is Professor Emeritus of Media and Communication at Lund University, Sweden. Along with many works on public spheres, civic cultures and media theory, his recent publications include Media and Political Engagement (2009) and The Political Web (2013).

Annette Hill is Professor of Media and Communication at Lund University, Sweden, and Visiting Professor at King’s College London. Her latest book is The Handbook of Mobile Socialities (with M. Hartmann and M. Andersson) and her next book is Roaming Audiences (2023).