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Just as in the 16th century, when the production of printed books and the efforts to read codex type required a fundamental shift of political perspective, so today, in the emergent world of communicative abundance, a whole new mental effort is required to make sense of how democracies are being shaped and re-shaped by the new tools and rhetoric of communication, and to see why our very thinking about democracy must also change….
Public Life in the Era of Communicative Abundance
This paper was originally presented as the Southam Lecture at the annual conference of the Canadian Communication Association, Ottawa, ON, May 31, 1998)
Eleven Theses on Communicative Abundance
(This is a shortened version of his keynote address at the inaugural meeting of the Amsterdam School of Communications Research, University of Amsterdam, 18 September 1997. This article was first printed in CSD Bulletin Volume 5, Number 1 Autumn 1997)
Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere
Abstract : We are living in times in which spatial frameworks of communication are in a state of upheaval. The old hegemony of state-structured and territorially-bound public life mediated by radio, television, newspapers and books is being rapidly eroded. In its place are developing a multiplicity of networked spaces of communication which are not tied [...]
Risks and Reversals
Excerpt from Chapter 5 pp. 173-82 ‘Democracy, Risks and Reversals’ in John Keanes book ‘The Media and Democracy’ Polity Press, 1991. Click here to read PDF
Liberty of the Press
In John Keane’s, The Media and Democracy. Polity Press, 1991. Chapter 1, pp. 1-51 This chapter has been scanned and it is available for download in PDF image format. In order to facilitate the download, the document has been cut in sections. Please click on the links below to retrieve the correspondent pages. To read [...]