The Making of Public Space: News, Events and Opinions in the Twenty-First Century

by Arnaud Esquerre and Luc Boltanski

Book Overview

This new book by Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre is a highly original analysis of the two key processes that shape the contemporary public sphere. On the one hand, there are the processes of news provision which select out a range of facts and events and bring them to the attention of a large number of people who have not, for the most part, experienced them directly. On the other hand, there are processes of politicization which problematize the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509562788
• ISBN13: 9781509562787
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 278 Pages