{"product_id":"9780745658995","title":"A Private Sphere: Democracy in a Digital Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eOnline technologies excite the public imagination with narratives of democratization. The Internet is a political medium, borne of democracy, but is it democratizing?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eLate modern democracies are characterized by civic apathy, public skepticism, disillusionment with politics, and general disinterest in conventional political process. And yet, public interest in blogging, online news, net-based activism, collaborative news filtering, and online networking reveal an electorate that is not disinterested, but rather, fatigued with political conventions of the mainstream.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book examines how online digital media shape and are shaped by contemporary democracies, by addressing the following issues:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow do online technologies remake how we function as citizens in contemporary democracies?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhat happens to our understanding of public and private as digitalized democracies converge technologies, spaces and practices?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow do citizens of today understand and practice their civic responsibilities, and how do they compare to citizens of the past?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow do discourses of globalization, commercialization and convergence inform audience\/producer, citizen\/consumer, personal\/political, public\/private roles individuals must take on?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAre resulting political behaviors atomized or collective?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIs there a public sphere anymore, and if not, what model of civic engagement expresses current tendencies and tensions best?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eStudents and scholars of media studies, political science, and critical theory will find this to be a fresh engagement with some of the most important questions facing democracies today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127204659440,"sku":"9780745658995","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780745658995_p0.jpg?v=1763640446","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780745658995","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}