Alan Mckee

Public Sphere (eBook, PDF)

An Introduction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What is happening to public debate in Western cultures? Is our public sphere disintegrating? In the face of popular tabloid newspapers, new forms of reality television and an increasing lack of respect for traditional authorities, many critics are concerned that our society no longer has a rational, informed and unified space where everyone can communicate about the issues that affect us all. In this book Alan McKee answers these questions by providing an introduction to the concept of the public sphere, the history of the term and the philosophical arguments about its function. By drawing on many examples from contemporary mediated culture, McKee looks at how we communicate with each other in public - and how we decide whether changing forms of communication are a good thing for the 'public sphere'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511079009
• Artikelnr.: 38188428

Autorenporträt

Alan McKee has been a writer since the age of six, when he started to plot Superman and Batman stories with the luminaries of the so-called Golden Age of Comics, his father, Alvin Schwartz, Bill Finger, co-creator of Batman, and others from the DC stable. His first novel was accepted by Doubleday when he was 22. He s ghostwritten audio self-development programs by Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins and other personal development gurus for Nightingale-Conant Corporation. He has also authored three Victorian mysteries. Alan is a visual digital artist who has exhibited internationally and pioneered the art form, making digital art, including NFTs on the computer with large and medium format photography for more than thirty years. Themes of climate changing focusing on the natural world of Gaia: Mother Earth.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Trivialization; 2. Commercialization; 3. Spectacle; 4. Fragmentation; 5. Apathy; Conclusion.