Gripsrud, Jostein The digital public sphere : challenges for media policy (9186523023)
The public sphere is where citizens communicate about the rule of their society. Mass media have always constituted the necessary infrastructure for the modern public sphere: from the early print media to electronic media like radio, television and now the Internet, they have distributed essential information, diverse forms of knowledge and argumentation about facts, problems and possible solutions. The three dimensions globalization, convergence and marketization lays out the organization of the book.