… than rich people? Are they any more or less likely to act as democratic citizens? This paper explores the relationship of poor people to democratic citizenship in sub-Saharan Africa. Its …
J Parkinson - British Journal of Political Science, 2006 - cambridge.org
… In this Research Note I examine the effects the media had on the kinds of information … I start by discussing the role of the media in democratic theory, setting out some structural …
… , democratic values or ideals. Consequently, this chapter emphasizes the democratic role of … to favor the widest possible dispersal of media ownership. It then discusses four additional, …
H Wasserman, D Thussu - 2011 - api.taylorfrancis.com
… in Africa, this book explicitly wants to critically examine how these media relate to discourses of African democracy and development. The danger exists that studies of popular media …
… democracy so much as natural aspects of human existence. In reality, bosses and workers are not equal, rich people and poor … , yet our expectations of democracy are so low that few …
RW McChesney - … economy of communication: Media and power in …, 2014 - Springer
… Constructing a free and democraticmedia system – especially in a dynamic and explosive … media battles in context. I look at traditional democratic theory and how news media has been …
R Hackett - Studies in political economy, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
… media is arguably one of the most important and least recognized. In this article, I first argue for the importance of placing media … bases for, a mediademocracy movement, concluding …
JD MA - Revista ComHumanitas, 2011 - dialnet.unirioja.es
… the critical role of news media in democratic societies; it … media support a healthy democracy and to open the difficult discussion about ways the media weaken or even harm democracy. …
P Mancini - The International Journal of Press/Politics, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
… The consequences of this change are even more general, affecting the structure of our democracy and determining strange “paradoxes” regarding the general relation between media …