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100			_aKeane, John _eauthor.
245			_aDemocracy and media Decadence / _cBy John Keane
260			_aUk: _bCambridge University press, _c2013.
300			_avii, 255p.
504			_aIncludes bibliography and index.
520			_aPublished in 2013 by Cambridge University Press, Democracy and Media Decadence is a scholar’s guide to understanding and explaining these trends, and how best to deal with them. It explains why media decadence is harmful for the democratic body politic and tackles some tough but fateful questions: which forces are chiefly responsible for media decadence? Should we be cheered by the rise of organised leaking of information, or worried by the growth of new forms of digital surveillance, or by the collapse of newspaper business models and the lingering culture of red-blooded journalism, which hunts in packs, its eyes on bad news, egged on by newsroom rules that include titillation, sensationalism and the excessive concentration on personalities? What (if anything) can be done about the new media decadence? Is improved legal regulation our best hope? How effective are media literacy campaigns, or efforts to redefine public service media for the twenty-first century? And, finally, the really discomposing questions: when judged in terms of the principle of free and open communication, does the age of communicative abundance on balance proffer more risk than promise? Are there developing parallels with the early twentieth century, when print journalism and radio and film broadcasting hastened the widespread collapse of parliamentary democracy? Are the media failures of our age the harbingers of profoundly authoritarian trends that might ultimately result in the birth of ‘phantom democracy’ – polities in which governments claim to represent majorities that are artefacts of media, money, organisation and force of arms? If that happened, what, if anything, would be lost? In plain words: why should anybody care about media decadence?
546			_aEnglish.
650			_aDemocracy _vStudies _xRole of media
650			_aMass media _vPolitical aspects _xInfluence on democracy
650			_aMedia ethics _vAnalysis _xDecadence and challenges
650			_aJournalism _vSocial and political aspects _xEthical decline
650			_aPolitical communication _vStudies _xImpact of media
650			_aPublic opinion _vInfluence _xMedia’s role in democratic societies
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