Deliberation, Democracy, and the Media

Is deliberative democracy the ideal goal of free speech? How do social movement organizations, activists, and political candidates use the media to frame their discourse? What responsibilities does the media have in maintaining or promoting democracy? In this broadly interdisciplinary volume, top scholars in communication, political science, sociology, law, and philosophy offer new perspectives on these and other intersections within democratic discourse and media.

Is deliberative democracy the ideal goal of free speech? How do social movement organizations, activists, and political candidates use the media to frame their discourse? What responsibilities does the media have in maintaining or promoting democracy? In this broadly interdisciplinary volume, top scholars in communication, political science, sociology, law, and philosophy offer new perspectives on these and other intersections within democratic discourse and media. Interweaving elements of social, political, and communication theory, they take on First Amendment and legal issues, privacy rights, media effects and agenda setting, publicity, multiculturalism, gender issues, universalism and global culture, and the rhetoric of the body, among other topics. This unique book provides a foundation for evaluating the current state of democratic discourse and will be of interest to students and scholars of deliberative democracy across the social sciences.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2
Chapter I: Democratic Deliberation
Chapter 3 Free Speech, Democratic Deliberation, and Valuing Types of Speech
Chapter 4 Promoting Informed Deliberation and a First Amendment Doctrine for a Digital Age: Toward a New Regulatory Regime for Broadcast Regulation
Chapter 5
Chapter II: Deliberative Equality and the Media
Chapter 6 Multicultural Democracy
Chapter 7 The Division of Labor in Democratic Discourse: Media, Experts, and Deliberative Democracy
Chapter 8 The Means of Communication and the Discourse on Sovereignty
Chapter 9
Chapter III: News Reporting and Coverage
Chapter 10 The Unheralded Functions of Campaign News
Chapter 11 Media Effects: Paradigms for the Analysis of Local Television News
Chapter 12
Chapter IV: Media Representation of Social Movements
Chapter 13 Movement Strategy and Dramaturgic Framing in Democratic States: The Case of the American Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 14 Body Rhetoric: Conflicted Reporting of Bodies in Pain
Chapter 15 Media Portrayal of Second Wave Feminist Groups
Chapter 16
Chapter V: Culture and Rhetoric
Chapter 17 The Banality of Evil, The Evil of Banality
Chapter 18 A Culture of Publicity