The Media and the Public explores the ways a range of media,
from the press to television to the Internet, have constructed and
represented the public.
* Provides a new synthesis of recent research exploring the
relationship between media and their publics
* Identifies ways in which different publics are subverting the
gatekeeping of mainstream media in order to find a voice and
communicate with others
* Situates contemporary media-public discourse and relationships
in an historical context in order to show the origin of
contemporary public/political engagement
* Creates a theoretical expansion on the role of the media in
accessing or denying the articulation of public voices, and the
ways in which publics are harnessing new media formats to produce
richer and more complex forms of political engagement
