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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Between the Posts -- Political and Sociological Theory -- Undoing Journalism -- 1 Fake Populism and News: Freedom versus Democracy -- What Does Fake Populism Do? -- Is Populism a Danger to Democracy? -- Fake News: Questioning Reason, Truth and Democracy -- But Aren't Lies Politicians Tell Fake News? -- Corrupt Politicians, Fake News Media and Cancel Culture -- 2 Political Theory: Deliberative, Agonistic and Dialogic Democracy -- Rawls: Liberal Theory of Democracy

Media Sociology and Journalism is a dialogue on contemporary society as defined through news media, politics and contemporary sociological theory. The tenacity of deeply opposing truth claims in politics and in journalism exposes the current fragility of democracy as a type of society and regime of power. Debates are reviewed on competing explanations of post truth attitudes, the rise of populism, fake news, conspiracy theories, neoliberalism, nihilism, white nationalism and the flights from and to democracy. Focus is on the tenacity of deeply opposing truth claims where each side takes the other's claim to be an existential threat. A dialogical critique of divisions in news media, politics and contemporary sociological theory provides an alternative way forward as right populism, fake news and post truth attitudes render democracy fragile. It is argued that professional journalism also contributes to this fragility when it reports or opines on the most vulnerable subjects in society but does not address them as their imagined audience. The fragility at the heart of democracy, the fine line that once crossed separates freedom from equality or rule by the people from authoritarian demagogues, are further examined through case studies of mainstream acts of journalism on the themes of immigration, urban poverty and cultural diversity.

Dans cet article, nous faisons ressortir l'opposition entre les positions théoriques, de Jiirgen Habermas et de Marcel Rioux. En examinant les deux théories contradictoires de la culture comme praxis raisonnée de l'activité communicative (Habermas) et comme praxis esthétique de la vie sociale (Rioux), nous situons chacun de ces deux penseurs dans sa tradition respective. Finalement, nous proposons une théorie de la culture comme praxis dialogique, afin d'indiquer le programme de recherche en sociologie critique que nous entendons poursuivre.

This book introduces the concept of 'act of citizenship' and in doing so, re-orients the study of what it means to be a citizen. Isin and Nielsen show that an 'act of citizenship' is the event through which subjects constitute themselves as citizens. They claim that such an act involves both responsibility and answerability, but is ultimately irreducible to either. This study of citizenship is truly interdisciplinary, drawing not only on new developments in politics, sociology, geography and anthropology, but also on psychoanalysis, philosophy and history. Ranging from Antigone and Socrates in the ancient world to checkpoints, euthanasia and flash mobs in the modern one, the 'acts' and chapters here build up a dynamic and wide-ranging picture. Acts of Citizenship provides important new insights for all those concerned with the relationship between individuals, groups and polities. Examines theories of how citizenship is mediated between lived experiences and formal entitlements in order to map out, confine, extend, name, and enact the boundaries of belonging to a polity. This book assembles deep traditions in social and political thought to provide a examination of acts of citizenship in this useful way.