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ISBN 10: 0511079001
ISBN 13: 9780511079009
Author: Alan McKee
What is happening to public debate in Western cultures? Is our public sphere disintegrating? In the face of popular tabloid newspapers, new forms of reality television and an increasing lack of respect for traditional authorities, many critics are concerned that our society no longer has a rational, informed and unified space where everyone can communicate about the issues that affect us all. In this book Alan McKee answers these questions by providing an introduction to the concept of the public sphere, the history of the term and the philosophical arguments about its function. By drawing on many examples from contemporary mediated culture, McKee looks at how we communicate with each other in public – and how we decide whether changing forms of communication are a good thing for the ‘public sphere’.
The Public Sphere An Introduction 1st Table of contents:
Chapter 1 Trivialization
The invention of the private and the public
The trivial nature of women’s concerns
Fighting to bring the private into the public
Fighting for the trivial
Why bring the personal into the public sphere?
Postmodern and modern responses to these arguments
Cultural difference, identity and knowledge
The importance of trivia
Modernity, postmodernity and trivia
Chapter 2 Commercialization
A history of sensational culture
Sensational culture as popular culture
Cultural studies and working-class culture
Arguments that all commercial culture is less worthwhile
Arguments that working-class commercial culture is less worthwhile
Is downmarket culture working-class culture?
Perspectives, experience, background, standpoint
Learning across cultures
‘Trashy’ thinking
Rational voices
Chapter 3 Spectacle
Historically spectacular
Black spectacle
Rational academics
Modern and postmodern rationality
Reason, truth, ideals and persuasion
Equality and sameness
Spectacular rationality
Lyrics in rap music
The propositionality of spectacular media
Visuals and music: the statements of Public Enemy music videos
Don’t matter if you’re Black or white
Chapter 4 Fragmentation
Historically fragmented
Is a homogenous public sphere desirable?
Against homogeneity
Does the official public sphere deal with the most important issues?
Does recognizing cultural difference make people selfish?
Can different cultures communicate with each other?
Fragmented discussion
Rainbow alliances
Conclusion
Chapter 5 Apathy
Apathetic history
Youth movements
The Internet and cyberdemocracy
What counts as ‘real’ political participation?
Arguing for cultural politics
Viewing as politics
Postmodern politics
Conclusion
Global public sphere
Further Reading
Notes
Introduction
1 Trivialization
2 Commercialization
3 Spectacle
4 Fragmentation
5 Apathy
Conclusion
References
Index
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