Jay G Blumler: 2 books

Original: The first book to look empirically at a city and traces its patterns of news circulation.  Holistic approach: includes interviews with a range of local mediators, focus groups, a survey of a representative sample of the population and a content analysis of one week’s news output from various media.  Looks at mainstream and local/alternative media.

Relations between the public and holders of political authority are in a period of transformative flux. On the one side, new expectations and meanings of citizenship are being entertained and occasionally acted upon. On the other, an inexorable impoverishment of mainstream political communication...