[Commlist] New book | Shaping Citizenship through Talk Radio

Intellect is pleased to share that /Shaping Citizenship through Talk 
Radio: Listening to the 2024 UK Election 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/shaping-citizenship-through-talk-radio>/, 
by Stephen Coleman, is out in e-book and hardback!

This is a book about how to have an inclusive, reflective and civil 
national conversation. It asks whether the mass media can contribute to 
meaningful public debate in the run-up to an election. Talk radio in the 
United States is said to have contributed to a political atmosphere in 
which the loudest, crudest and simplest arguments prevail. Is there a 
different model of public talk that can contribute to a kinder, wiser, 
more empathetic democracy? In the run-up to the 2024 UK general 
election, Stephen Coleman listened to callers to the BBC’s daily 
phone-in show in the hope of finding answers to these questions. In this 
year-long study, we see the public expressing its mood, telling its 
stories and testing its arguments.
/
Shaping Citizenship through Talk Radio/ argues that even in a time of 
democratic anxiety and rising division, people are still finding ways to 
talk, listen, and act together. It explains why democracies need 
reliable public spaces that help citizens connect and communicate across 
their differences. Reporting on what he found, Coleman also proposes a 
way forward for a more empathetic democratic discourse.


*_Table of Contents
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*Acknowledgements
Introduction: *Listening to an Electorate Think

*1.* Elusive Conversations

*2. *Democracy as Working Through

*3.* Now It’s Your Turn to Listen to Me

*4.* Talk Radio as Civic Gathering Place

*5.* Listening to the Mood Chorus

*6. *How Stories Keep Elections Real

*7. *The Other Election Debates

*8.* After the Election, the Eruption

*9.* Speaking as a Citizen

*10. *Out-Talking the Demagogues

*References
Index*
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Please visit our website for more information:
www.intellectbooks.com/shaping-citizenship-through-talk-radio
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