The transformation of politics: Implications for media assessment and accountability

Autor:	Hans Verstraeten
Rok vydání:	2004
Předmět:	Politics Transformative learning Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Scope (project management) Communication Field (Bourdieu) Law Accountability Public sphere Sociology Private sphere Consumption (sociology) Epistemology
Zdroj:	Communications. 29
ISSN:	1613-4087 0341-2059
DOI:	10.1515/comm.2004.005
Popis:	This article discusses the problem of the transformation of politics, based upon the concepts of 'emancipatory politics' and 'life politics' by Anthony Giddens. Different arguments are put forward why these concepts can be useful for an analysis of our late modern society. Special attention goes to the role of the media in this transformative process. Accepting that politics is expanding and broadening from 'emancipatory politics' to 'life politics' also has important implications for the notions of media assessment and media accountability. This means that the latter concepts should also broaden their scope from the pure informative aspects of the media to the field of infotainment
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
Externí odkaz:	https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::cc5f0e2023c3adb73cdf9ad0c60936de https://doi.org/10.1515/comm.2004.005 Zobrazit plný text záznamu