Peter Dahlgren

Written with media students in mind, this accessible book provides both students and researchers with a new perspective on how to research engagement, not as a metric but as a marker of power relations. This book navigates the reader through a tighter analytical notion of engagement within an understanding of media, culture and democracy. Dahlgren and Hill offer a new definition of engagement as an energising internal force, and as such a powerful means to further human agency. From this definition, the book builds a generative theory of engagement as a nexus of relations we make and break with media on a daily basis, with examples from political activism, news and disinformation, and the global pandemic. Dahlgren and Hill identify five parameters of engagement in order to understand the relations we have with media across changing public and mediated spheres. This new perspective offers students and researchers pathways for investigating the meaning of media engagement as a resource for living. It will be particularly useful for undergraduate courses on media audiences and publics, political communication and democracy, media and cultural theory, journalism, and for media, communication and sociology studies more broadly.

Written with media students in mind, this accessible book provides both students and researchers with a new perspective on how to research engagement, not as a metric but as a marker of power relations. This book navigates the reader through a tighter analytical notion of engagement within an understanding of media, culture and democracy. Dahlgren and Hill offer a new definition of engagement as an energising internal force, and as such a powerful means to further human agency. From this definition, the book builds a generative theory of engagement as a nexus of relations we make and break with media on a daily basis, with examples from political activism, news and disinformation, and the global pandemic. Dahlgren and Hill identify five parameters of engagement in order to understand the relations we have with media across changing public and mediated spheres. This new perspective offers students and researchers pathways for investigating the meaning of media engagement as a resource for living. It will be particularly useful for undergraduate courses on media audiences and publics, political communication and democracy, media and cultural theory, journalism, and for media, communication and sociology studies more broadly.

Det var en gång ett gesällprov från ett annat sekel, ett jugendskåp med glasdörrar och intarsia, känsligt för stötar. Ett unikt och vackert skåp. Men det var ett för stort skåp i en för liten lägenhet. Dess ägare, den rullstolsburne Johan Lilja, hade fått nog. Skåpet tog både luft, ljus och energi. Det måste ut! Men frågar var, hur? Hoppet om en lösning kom med Veronica, en kaxig tonåring som bodde med sin alkoholiserade morsa två våningar ovanför Johans hål i väggen. De båda slöt ett avtal, en överenskommelse som skulle få oanade konsekvenser.

Det här är den andra berättelsen i en triologi om medeltidslandet Befrielsen. Här handlar det om intriger, maktkamp och om jakten efter en förmögenhet, en handfull ströguld. Du får följa två kvinnor, Myra som hittade guldet och Brusa som stal det. Brusa jagas från skogarna i Befrielsen till öknen och torkan i grannlandet Vichlas. Och det är många som vill komma åt guldet.

Det är en bok om en isolerad by, en by där Gråmännen har sitt hem, en by som har en källa med grönt stärkande vatten och med en metall, alma, som är hårdare än någon annan metall och nästan lika lätt som bambu. Men i grannlandet Befrielsen och i dess huvudstad Mormosa får den nya Härskarinnan, Lorinda den II:a av Rödsten, vetskap om vad Gråmännen håller på med. Då börjar jakten…… Det är en bok om hur svårt det är med demokrati, om hur svårt män har för kvinnor med makt, om religionens elände och om vansinniga beslut som fattas av människor under press.

Looks at how the media can inform the general public about the world at a time when public service broadcasting is under attack and the popular press plays to the market with an output of sensationalism.

Varför gillar vi vissa personer men inte andra? Varför är försäljare så skickliga? Hur vi beter oss och hur vi bildar våra uppfattningar om verkligheten funderar vi kanske inte speciellt mycket på. Vi vill gärna tro att vi grundar våra beslut på fakta och relevant information, men som boken visar påverkas vi omedvetet av helt andra faktorer. Dessa faktorer bygger på grundläggande psykologiska mekanismer som i många fall hjälper oss i vår vardag, men som även går att utnyttja för att manipulera och påverka oss om man känner till knepen. Författarna utgår från de två psykologiska system vi använder oss av för att fatta beslut: ett snabbt och automatiskt där vi går på magkänslan, samt ett långsamt och eftertänksamt där vi tänker mer med huvudet. Vidare beskrivs hur språk och argumentation kan användas för manipulativa syften, och slutligen sätts detta in i ett större sammanhang med massmediernas påverkan på individen. Ur innehållet:Subliminal påverkanBrister i lukt, syn och hörselGenvägar i tänkandetSocial påverkanVanliga misstag vid resonerandeMassmediernas påverkanPåverkan och manipulation riktar sig huvudsakligen till studenter i psykologi men också till alla som är intresserade av att skaffa sig en bred förståelse för hur människor kan påverka andra människor i såväl privatliv som arbetsliv. På www.marionett.net samlar författarna länkar och videoklipp som ger exempel på påverkan och manipulation i vardagen.

As democracy encounters difficulties, many citizens are turning to the domain of alternative politics and, in so doing, making considerable use of the new communication technologies. This volume analyses the various factors that shape such participation, and addresses such key topics as civic subjectivity, web intellectuals, and cosmopolitanism.

As democracy encounters difficulties, many citizens are turning to the domain of alternative politics and, in so doing, making considerable use of the new communication technologies. This volume analyses the various factors that shape such participation, and addresses such key topics as civic subjectivity, web intellectuals, and cosmopolitanism.

One of the most difficult problems facing Western democracy today is the decline in citizens' political engagement. There are many elements that contribute to this, including fundamental socio-cultural changes. This book summarizes these contexts and situates itself within them, while focusing on the media's key role in shaping the character of civic engagement. In particular, it examines the new interactive electronic media in terms of their civic potential. Looking at the evolution of the media landscape, the book examines key notions such as citizenship, public sphere, agency, identity, deliberation, and practice, and offers a multi-dimensional analytic framework called 'civic cultures'. This framework is then applied to several settings, including television, popular culture, journalism, the EU, and global activism, to illuminate the role of the media in deflecting and enhancing political engagement, as well as in contributing to new forms of political involvement and new understandings of what constitutes the political.

One of the most difficult problems facing Western democracy today is the decline in citizens' political engagement. There are many elements that contribute to this, including fundamental socio-cultural changes. This book summarizes these contexts and situates itself within them, while focusing on the media's key role in shaping the character of civic engagement. In particular, it examines the new interactive electronic media in terms of their civic potential. Looking at the evolution of the media landscape, the book examines key notions such as citizenship, public sphere, agency, identity, deliberation, and practice, and offers a multi-dimensional analytic framework called 'civic cultures'. This framework is then applied to several settings, including television, popular culture, journalism, the EU, and global activism, to illuminate the role of the media in deflecting and enhancing political engagement, as well as in contributing to new forms of political involvement and new understandings of what constitutes the political.

In this broad-ranging text, Peter Dahlgren clarifies the underlying theoretical concepts of civil society and the public sphere, and relates these to a critical analysis of the practice of television as journalism, as information and as entertainment. He demonstrates the limits and the possibilities of the television medium and the formats of popular journalism. These issues are linked to the potential of the audience to interpret or resist messages, and to construct its own meanings. What does a realistic understanding of the functioning and the capabilities of television imply for citizenship and democracy in a mediated age?

Looks at how the media can inform the general public about the world at a time when public service broadcasting is under attack and the popular press plays to the market with an output of sensationalism.