The Space of Opinion: Media Intellectual and the Public Sphere (Book)
Title: The Space of Opinion: Media Intellectual and the Public Sphere
Author: Ronald N. Jacobs
Author: Eleanor Townsley
Abstract: While the newspaper op-ed page, the Sunday morning political talk shows on television, and the evening cable-news television lineup have an obvious and growing influence in American politics and political communication, social scientists and media scholars tend to be broadly critical of the rise of organized punditry during the 20th century without ever providing a close empirical analysis. What is the nature of the contemporary space of opinion? How has it developed historically? What kinds of people speak in this space? What styles of writing and speech do they use? What types of authority and expertise do they draw on? And what impact do their commentaries have on public debate? To describe and analyze this complex space of news media, Ronald Jacobs and Eleanor Townsley rely on enormous samples of opinion collected from newspapers and television shows during the first years of the last two Presidential administrations.
Year: 2011
Primary URL: http://www.amazon.com/Space-Opinion-Intellectuals-Public-Sphere/dp/0199797935
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Multi-author monograph
ISBN: 9780199797929

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