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Epilogue

What Media for What Public Life?

from Part V - The Role of Scholars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

By
Silvio Waisbord
Edited by
Matthew Powers  and
Adrienne Russell
Matthew Powers
Affiliation:
University of Washington
Adrienne Russell
Affiliation:
University of Washington
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This chapter reviews the core issues raised in the book, and suggests points for further research. Silvio Waisbord discusses how media scholarship might best engage publics and how it might best intervene in shaping media and public life. Given the scope and scale of current change in the communication landscape, Waisbord calls on media scholars to revisit the analytical scaffolding and normative arguments that form the basis of the field. He calls on scholars to acknowledge and work to better understand the reality of fragmented media ecologies, heterogeneous forms of public engagement, and fractured public knowledge.

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public scholarshippublic engagementmedia ecologymedia fragmentationpublic knowledge
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Rethinking Media Research for Changing Societies , pp. 205 - 218
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Epilogue
  • Edited by Matthew Powers, University of Washington, Adrienne Russell, University of Washington
  • Book: Rethinking Media Research for Changing Societies
  • Online publication: 18 September 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108886260.015
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  • Epilogue
  • Edited by Matthew Powers, University of Washington, Adrienne Russell, University of Washington
  • Book: Rethinking Media Research for Changing Societies
  • Online publication: 18 September 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108886260.015
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  • Epilogue
  • Edited by Matthew Powers, University of Washington, Adrienne Russell, University of Washington
  • Book: Rethinking Media Research for Changing Societies
  • Online publication: 18 September 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108886260.015
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