The Mediated City: The News in a Post-Industrial Context [Hardcover]

Mediated Citybegins by asking: how does news circulate in a major post-industrial city? To answer, Stephen Coleman analyzes a wide-range of practices involved in producing, circulating, and consuming news, and he examines the various ways and mediums through which individuals and groups may find out about, follow, or discuss local issues and events. He directly critiques the assumptions  of many scholars about the centrality of certain news media, and he shows that questions about what news really is and what types of media constitute and deliver it truly matter.

The first book to critically trace the patterns of news circulation within a city,Mediated Cityis poised to radically change how media scholars consider the local transmission and function of information.

Stephen Colemanis professor of political communication, University of Leeds, honorary professor in political science at the University of Copenhagen, and a research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. His most recent books includeHow Voters FeelandThe Media and the Public: Them and Us in Media Discourse.
 

Figures and tables
Acknowledgements
About the contributors
Introduction: a new news ecology
1 Making sense of/in the city
2 A week in news
3 How citizens receive the news
4 How people make sense of the city
5 The mainstream providers of local news
6 Citizen news-markers and news practices
7 ‘Down there in Chapeltown’
8 Mediating democratic accountability: the case of the care home closures
9 Local news: a different story
Appendices
References
Index

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