[ecrea] New book : Media and Global Civil Society by Lina Dencik

New book: Media and Global Civil Society by Lina Dencik
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Media-Global-Civil-Society-Dencik/dp/0230301339

Much analysis and hope in both academia and political rhetoric currently
rests on ideas of deliberation and post-national democratic practices *
the roots of a 'global civil society'. This has taken force as not just
an analysis of social and political change, but as a normative project.
This book has grown out of concern with how changes in media are
influencing democratic function and politics in our global age. Lina
Dencik argues that counter to much discussion, the very notion of a
global civil society needs to be subjected to rigorous critique, given
so much of the debate is based on an implicit (and problematic) account
of changing conditions, not least within the media. Bridging the gap
between different literatures across disciplines and presenting new
empirical data on key sites of news production, the book provides a
fresh and critical approach to the topical debate on media,
globalization and social and political change.


LINA DENCIK Research Fellow at the Central European University in
Budapest, Hungary. She completed her PhD at Goldsmiths, University of
London and has taught Media and Communications at several universities
in the UK.






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