[ecrea] New book: Handbook of Communication in the Public Sphere

Handbook of Communication in the Public Sphere
Veronika Koller & Ruth Wodak, Lancaster University, UK.

This volume addresses the acute dilemma of the public sphere, which 
is by definition open to everyone but in practice often excludes 
particular groups of people in particular societies at particular 
points in time. Thus, the theoretical and conceptual issues of 
participation and democratisation are at the core of this volume. The 
guiding questions for this collection of articles are therefore: Who 
has access to the public sphere? How is this access enabled or 
disabled? Under what conditions is it granted or withheld, and by 
whom? Due to the salient changes of the notions of time and space, 
communication and language(s) nowadays cover many more domains and 
use different channels: Communication has become ubiquitous, fast and 
global. These changes have enormous impact on both institutional, 
public and every day lives. We regard the public sphere as the nodal 
point for the discourses of business, politics and media, and this 
basic assumption is also s reflected in the structure of the volume. 
Each of these three macro-topics comprises chapters by international 
renowned scholars from a variety of disciplines and research 
traditions who each combine up-to-date overviews of the relevant 
literature with their own cutting-edge research into aspects of 
different public spheres such as corporate promotional communication, 
political rhetoric or genre features of electronic mass media. The 
broad scope of the volume is also reflected in a comprehensive 
discussion of communication technologies ranging from conventional 
spoken and written genres such as company brochures, political 
speeches and TV shows to emerging ones like customer chat forums, 
political blogs and text messaging. Due to the books' wide scope, its 
interdisciplinary approach and its clear structure, it addresses 
researchers, scholars and post-graduate students in communication and media.

Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton (July 2010)
ISBN-10: 3110226057
ISBN-13: 978-3110226058

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