Listening Publics The Politics and Experience of Listening in the Media Age

Name: Listening Publics The Politics and Experience of Listening in the Media Age
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ISBN: 9780745660257

ISBN-10: 0745660258

ISBN-13: 9780745660257

Edition: 2013

Authors: Kate Lacey

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In focusing on the practices, politics and ethics of listening, this wide–ranging book offers an important new perspective on questions of media audiences, publics and citizenship. Listening is central to modern communication, politics and experience, but is commonly overlooked and underestimated in a culture fascinated by the spectacle and the politics of voice. Listening Publics restores listening to media history and to theories of the public sphere. In so doing it opens up profound questions for our understanding of mediated experience, public participation and civic engagement.Taking a cross–national and interdisciplinary approach, the book explores how listening publics have been…

Book details

List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 4/12/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Preface


Listening Overlooked



Listening In and Listening Out



The Modernization of Listening


Listening in the Age of Spectacle



Listening in Good Faith: Recording, Representation and the Real



Listening Amid the Noise of Modernity



Listening Live: The Politics and Experience of the Radiogenic


Ways of Listening



The Privatization of the Listening Public



The Politics and Practices of Collective Listening


Listening in the Public Sphere



The Public Sphere as Auditorium



Media and the Ethics of Listening


Notes


References


Index