[Commlist] Media, Democracy and Social Change New Book

*Media, Democracy and Social Change: Re-imagining Political 
Communications (Sage, October 2020) 
<https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1526456966/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tu00_p1_i4>*
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*By Aeron Davis, Natalie Fenton, Des Freedman and Gholam Khiabany *

When we are told so regularly that we live in a ‘post truth’ age and are 
surrounded by ‘fake news’, it can be tempting to think of politics as 
primarily mediated. Discussion and analysis of public affairs is 
preoccupied with the power and reach of platforms or the passion and 
rage of social media exchanges. As important as these issues may be, a 
focus on the communicative risks downgrading the political.

*Media, Democracy and Social Change* puts politics back into political 
communications. It shows how within a digital media ecology, the wider 
context of neoliberal capitalism remains essential for understanding 
what political communications is and can hope to be.

Tackling broad themes of structural inequality, technological change, 
political realignment and social transformation, the book explores 
political communications as it relates to debates around the state, 
infrastructures, elites, populism, political parties, activism, the 
legacies of colonialism, and more.

It is both an expert introduction to the field of political 
communications, and a critical intervention to help re-imagine what a 
democratic politics might mean in a digital age. It will be essential 
reading for students, researchers and activists.

Aeron Davis, Natalie Fenton, Des Freedman and Gholam Khiabany all work 
at the Department of Media and Communication at Goldsmiths, University 
of London, where they teach together on the MA in Political Communications.

*Table of Contents*

1 Putting Politics Back Into Political Communications

2 Infrastructures of Political Communications

3 The State of Political Communications

4 Elites, Experts, Power and Democracy

5 Democracy Without Political Parties?

6 The Violence of an Illiberal Liberalism

7 Political Communications, Civil Society and the Commons

8 Intellectuals and the Re-imagining of Political Communications


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