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How central are the media to the functioning of democracy? Is democracy primarily about citizens using their vote? Does the expression of their voice necessarily empower citizens? Media and Citizenship challenges some assumptions about the relationship between the media and democracy in highly unequal societies like South Africa. In a post-apartheid society where an enfranchised majority is still unable to fundamentally practise their citizenship and experiences marginalisation on a daily basis, notions like listening and belonging may be more useful ways of thinking about the role of the media. In this context, protest is taken seriously as a form of political expression and the media's role is foregrounded as actively seeking out the voices of those on the margins of society. Through a range of case studies, the contributors show how listening, both as a political concept and as a form of practice, has transformative and even radical potential for both emerging and established democracies.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: The media-citizenship nexus
1 Citizens and journalists: The possibilities of co-creating the democracy we want
2 Listening: A normative approach to transform media and democracy
3 Democracy and political participation: The ambivalence of the Web
Part 2: The media-democracy problematic
4 Speaking power's truth: South African media in the service of the suburbs
5 'Back to the people' journalism: Journalists as public storytellers
6 A better life for all? Consumption and citizenship in post-apartheid media culture
7 'Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument': Reason, emotion and affect in the post-apartheid public sphere
8 The tale of two publics: Media, political representation and citizenship in Hout Bay, Cape Town
9 'Non-poor only': Culture jamming and the limits of free speech in South Africa
Part 3: Acts of citizenship
10 Could a 'Noongarpedia' form the basis for an emerging form of citizenship in the age of new media?
11 The media, Equal Education and school learners: 'Political listening' in the South African education crisis
12 Innocence: A free pass into the moral commonweal
13 We are not the 'born frees': The real political and civic lives of eight young South Africans
Contributors
Index
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