The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society

After virtue, a study in moral theory

The article reviews the book "Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other," by Sherry Turkle.

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other.

Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, and Time

Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics

Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern BodiesThinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary WestYearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural PoliticsGender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Letters to the editor are valuable tools improving feedback procedures for traditional print media, placing topics that occupy the public at large on the public agenda. In this article, the results of research on selection procedures and editing practices in Flemish newsrooms are presented. In addition to content analysis of published letters in several Flemish newspapers and in-depth interviews of the editors-in-chief, the study includes some qualitative, innovative and creative research techniques. In an attempt to analyse objectively the selection procedures, the researcher wrote more than 100 letters to the newspapers’ editorial offices. The outcome of this part of the study offers a thought-provoking insight into the selection criteria as well as the editing of the letters section.

Letters to the Editor: A Feedback Opportunity Turned into a Marketing Tool An Account of Selection and Editing Practices in the Flemish Daily Press

This article evaluates trends in young people's reading habits. In order to get a better understanding of reading habits, the article compares the results of comparative and longitudinal research w...

Research Note: Young People and Patterns of Time Consumption in Relation to Print Media

Journalists have traditionally focused on a small range of elite sources. Far less attention went to ordinary or common people, resulting in little visibility for that community in news output. However, bottom-up Web 2.0 technologies have given common people new communication tools, allowing them to disperse information autonomously. This has made traditional news media aware of a public desire for bottom-up participation in the news production process. Accordingly, some news media have begun to offer their own participation features. Bearing this context in mind, we address the question whether Web 2.0 has helped increase the visibility and importance of the common people in daily news output. Via a content analysis of five Flemish newspapers, the current representation of ordinary citizens is compared to a decade ago, before the appearance Web 2.0. The analysis shows that citizens appear more prominently in the news nowadays.

The printed rise of the common man

Newspaper editors have to confront declining sales figures while research reveals that this decline is more notable among readers from younger age groups. Consequently, editors have tried to attract young readers by revising content, changing aspects of layout, or by editing special youth inserts and supplements. This paper reports the findings of research which analyzes reading behavior and attitudes towards newspapers among a representative sample of 1200 16–18‐year‐old Belgian students. The results indicate the degree to which the different editorial strategies match the desires of young readers. The paper concludes that content shifts offer the best chances for increasing readership: more attention to local news, extra background information and easier language help to reduce the gap between newspapers and young readers. Adolescents indicate their desire to be treated as mature partners in the communication process and therefore reject a layout that is merely innovative or flashy. Youth inserts seem t...

Newspaper editors in search of young readers: content and layout strategies to win new readers

In order to assess the impact of cost-cutting and digitalization on the expansion or contraction of the mediated public sphere, we developed a quantitative and longitudinal content analysis focused...

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Letters to the Editor: A Feedback Opportunity Turned into a Marketing Tool An Account of Selection and Editing Practices in the Flemish Daily Press

Research Note: Young People and Patterns of Time Consumption in Relation to Print Media

The printed rise of the common man

Newspaper editors in search of young readers: content and layout strategies to win new readers

Towards more balanced news access? A study on the impact of cost-cutting and Web 2.0 on the mediated public sphere: