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Dahlgren, Peter, Media and political engagement: citizens, communication, and democracy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009, 232 pages

Book Media and political engagement: citizens, communication, and democracy is questioning media’s ambivalent relationship to citizenship and democracy. Sometimes media promote democratic values, yet sometimes they are contradictive in their content selection and presentation. New media context for sure has changed the dynamics of how citizens use media to advance the democratic project and this book takes this complex debate to a new level. This book addresses political engagement and disengagement, and the media’s role in this regard, as situated within the tension between the ideals and present realities of democracy. Further, it explores how the Internet has changed the nature of political engagement.

media; political engagement; communication

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