Posts Tagged ‘ public sphere ’

Ghost Stories and Dirty Optics: Notes on the Hilmesian Closeup

June 10, 2015
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Ghost Stories and Dirty Optics: Notes on the Hilmesian Closeup

Looking beyond the content of Michele Hilmes’s work to its structure and form, Shawn VanCour discusses the larger goals and techniques of Hilmesian historiography.
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Methods of Failure: How Political Journalism lost the US Presidential Election to Nate Silver

November 8, 2012
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Methods of Failure: How Political Journalism lost the US Presidential Election to Nate Silver

Wednesday morning left both the electoral map and Republican politicians feeling a little blue, yet there was another group in need of collective introspection: political journalists, commentators and pundits.
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Why Public Media Matters for Media Studies

April 25, 2012
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Why Public Media Matters for Media Studies

Do public spaces increase democratic participation through public discourse and visibility? Does a mediated non-profit ‘public forum’ help to promote the ‘promise’ of American democracy? These questions still provide grounds for healthy debate over the purpose of media studies, as well as a coherent logic for media research.
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Public Protest and Public Screens

February 20, 2011
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Public Protest and Public Screens

I’m reminded of an argument made by rhetoric scholars Kevin DeLuca and Jennifer Peeples that we need to rethink the notion of the public sphere because so much of our democratic enactments happen not in a sphere, but on what they call the “public screen.”
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