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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Sociology, Media, and Citizenship | |
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| Sources for a Critical Sociology of Mediated Society | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Critical Sociology: Exposing the Gap between Real and Imaginary Audiences | |
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| Media Centred Approaches | |
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| Decentred Approaches | |
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| Summary | |
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| Enhanced Learning Activities | |
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| Annotated Further Reading | |
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| Useful Media | |
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| The Public Sphere | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Public Spaces | |
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| Media and Public Spaces | |
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| The State and the Commercial Imperative | |
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| Summary | |
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| Enhanced Learning Activities | |
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| Annotated Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Citizenship and Audiences | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Mediated Society as a Social System | |
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| Audiences: Real or Imagined? | |
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| Audiences through the Lens of Social Research | |
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| The Media System and Responsibility | |
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| Summary | |
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| Enhanced Learning Activities | |
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| Annotated Further Reading | |
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| Useful Media | |
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| Note | |
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| Consumption and Advertising | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Consumption: The Paradoxical Phenomenon | |
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| The Marxist Perspective on Production and Consumption | |
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| Georg Simmel on Fashion and Urban Life | |
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| Leisure Class, Gender, and Conspicuous Consumption | |
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| Classical Sociology of Consumption: The Limitation | |
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| Cultural Capital and Social Class | |
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| Feminist Critiques: Gender, Political Economy, and Consumption | |
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| Advertising as Mass Communication | |
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| De Certeau on Agency, Interpretation, and Advertising | |
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| Summary | |
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| Enhanced Learning Activities | |
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| Annotated Further Reading | |
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| Useful Media | |
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| New Media, New World? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| New Media: A Contemporary Phenomenon | |
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| New Media: A Historical Phenomenon | |
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| The Sociological Imagination of New Media | |
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| TV: A Continued Debate | |
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| New Media and Political Violence | |
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| Summary | |
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| Enhanced Learning Activities | |
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| Annotated Further Reading | |
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| Useful Media | |
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| Media Events and the Sociological Imagination | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What Is Globalization? | |
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| Global Media Domination and Resistance | |
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| Framing the News | |
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| Global Media Events as Spectacles | |
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| Mediating Citizenship Through Global Media Events | |
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| Missing Global Media Events | |
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| Missing News from the Global South | |
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| Summary | |
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| Enhanced Learning Activities | |
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| Annotated Further Reading | |
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| Useful Media | |
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| National Media Events | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Multinational Canada and Public Broadcasting | |
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| Double-Faced Janus: National Media, Social Order, and Disorder | |
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| English Canada: A Mediated Absent Nation | |
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| Multicultural Framing: Common Memories and National Histories | |
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| Summary | |
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| Enhanced Learning Activities | |
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| Annotated Further Reading | |
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| Useful Media | |
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| Urban Media Events: Toronto and Montreal Case Studies | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Seriocomedy, Newspapers, and the Well-Ordered City | |
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| National Public Broadcasting of the Cultures of Urban Laughter | |
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| Toronto and the Absent Nation | |
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| Amalgamation Debates: Normal Disorder of the City? | |
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| Montreal and the Absent Region | |
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| Crossover Voices | |
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| Summary | |
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| Enhanced Learning Activities | |
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| Annotated Further Reading | |
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| Useful Media | |
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| Notes | |
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| Social Problems Through Journalism and Media | |
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| Reporting on Social Problems | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What Makes a Problem Social? | |
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| Reporting on Social Problems | |
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| Social Problems Imagined through Entertainment | |
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| Summary | |
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| Enhanced Learning Activities | |
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| Annotated Further Reading | |
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| Useful Media | |
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| Notes | |
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| Journalism and Seriocomedy: Framing Poverty in Montreal Media | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Les Bougons: Seriocomedy and Poverty | |
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| Studying Newspapers: Frame Analysis and Keyword Search | |
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| Direct Talk in the Press: 'The Poorest of the Poor' | |
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| 'OurTV Poor' Are at Peace | |
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| Journalistic Polemics on Politicians, Developers, and the State | |
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| Seriocomedy as Anarchy: Against the Common Good | |
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| Indirect Talk: Journalistic Accounts of Poor Reporting on Poor | |
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| Summary | |
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| Enhanced Learning Activities | |
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| Annotated Further Reading | |
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| Useful Media | |
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| Note | |
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| Framing Immigration as a Social Problem in The New York Times | |
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| Introduction | |
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| On US Immigration and New York City | |
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| What Is Conditional Hospitality? | |
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| Just, Unjust, and Extreme | |
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| Multicultural Practices and Changing Faces | |
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| Governance: Official Discourse and Political Shocks | |
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| Social Movements: The Astonishment of Social Solidarity | |
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| How Can Public Journalism Reduce the Gap? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Enhanced Learning Activities | |
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| Annotated Further Reading | |
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| Useful Media | |
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| Note | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |