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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

3. Broadcasting and the Public Sphere

Author : Simon Dawes

Published in: British Broadcasting and the Public-Private Dichotomy

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In this chapter, the emergence of the public sphere as a concept with which to normatively evaluate the democratic importance of broadcasting is situated in the context of Thatcherite reforms in the 1980s. The dominant approach in British media studies is contrasted with an Australian critique, before more complex debates within political philosophy are engaged with in-depth. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century debates on press freedom and public opinion, which informed Habermas’s initial development of the public sphere concept, are discussed in detail.

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Metadata
Title
Broadcasting and the Public Sphere
Author
Simon Dawes
Copyright Year
2017
Book
British Broadcasting and the Public-Private Dichotomy

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-50096-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-50097-3

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50097-3_3