Media and Citizenship Between Marginalization and Participation, A Garman & H Wasserman

Media and Citizenship Between Marginalization and Participation

Edited by Garman & Wasserman

2017, HSRC Press
ISBN 13: 978-0-7969-2556-5

241 pages

Soft cover, very good condition inside and out - see photos below details.

Chapters:
The Media-Citizenship Nexus
The Media-Democracy Problematic
Act of Citizenship

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 How central are the media to the functioning of democracy? Is democracy primarily about citizens using their vote? Does the expression of their voice necessarily empower citizens? Media and Citizenship challenges some assumptions about the relationship between the media and democracy in highly unequal societies like South Africa. In a post-apartheid society where an enfranchised majority is still unable to fundamentally practise their citizenship and experiences marginalisation on a daily basis, notions like listening and belonging may be more useful ways of thinking about the role of the media. In this context, protest is taken seriously as a form of political expression and the medias role is foregrounded as actively seeking out the voices of those on the margins of society. Through a range of case studies, the contributors show how listening, both as a political concept and as a form of practice, has transformative and even radical potential for both emerging and established democracies.