Listening Publics: The Politics and Experience of Listening in the Media Age

by Kate Lacey

Book Overview

In focusing on the practices, politics and ethics of listening, this wide-ranging book offers an important new perspective on questions of media audiences, publics and citizenship. Listening is central to modern communication, politics and experience, but is commonly overlooked and underestimated in a culture fascinated by the spectacle and the politics of voice.

Listening Publics restores listening to media history and to theories of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745660258
• ISBN13: 9780745660257
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"