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

Boltanski, Luc, Esquerre, Arnaud

  • 出版商: Polity
  • 出版日期: 2025-02-11
  • 售價: $1,200
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,140
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 278
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 1509562788
  • ISBN-13: 9781509562787
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商品描述

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 facts made known by news provision and treat them as issues that concern citizens and the state. Politicization is typically characterized by a diversity of interpretations which, in turn, gives rise to a proliferation of commentary, discussion, polemic and division.

In order to study these processes and their interaction, Boltanski and Esquerre draw on a vast repository of user comments left on the site of a major daily newspaper, as well as the thousands of comments posted on an online video site. They uncover what is sayable by comparing published comments with those deleted by moderators. They capture opinions in the course of their formation, rather than describing views which have long become cemented; these are often reflexive and wise, deriving from responses to interviews or opinion polls. They map out the parameters of politicization today, touching on various hot topics such as feminism, the environment, immigration, religion, nationalism and Europe.

This is not just a book about the news and the press, but a major new work which shows how political opinion comes into being and the way in which it affects our daily lives. It will be of great value to students and scholars in media studies, sociology and politics, as well as to anyone interested in the state of politics and the media in our contemporary digital age.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本由 Luc Boltanski 和 Arnaud Esquerre 所著的新書,是對當代公共領域兩個關鍵過程的高度原創分析。一方面,新聞提供的過程篩選出一系列事實和事件,並將其帶到大量未直接經歷這些事件的人們面前。另一方面,政治化的過程使得新聞提供所揭示的事實成為問題,並將其視為與公民和國家相關的議題。政治化通常以多樣的解釋為特徵,這反過來又引發了評論、討論、辯論和分歧的激增。

為了研究這些過程及其互動,Boltanski 和 Esquerre 利用了一個主要日報網站上大量用戶留言的資料庫,以及在一個線上視頻網站上發表的數千條評論。他們通過比較已發表的評論與被版主刪除的評論,揭示了可言說的內容。他們捕捉到意見形成過程中的觀點,而不是描述那些早已固化的看法;這些觀點往往是反思性的和明智的,源自對訪談或民意調查的回應。他們勾勒出當今政治化的參數,觸及各種熱門話題,如女性主義、環境、移民、宗教、民族主義和歐洲。

這不僅僅是一本關於新聞和媒體的書,而是一部重要的新作,展示了政治意見是如何形成的,以及它如何影響我們的日常生活。對於媒體研究、社會學和政治學的學生和學者,以及對當代數位時代政治和媒體狀況感興趣的任何人來說,這本書都將具有很大的價值。

作者簡介

Luc Boltanski is Professor of Sociology at EHESS, Paris, and the author of many books including The New Spirit of Capitalism (with Eve Chiapello) and Enrichment (with Arnaud Esquerre).
Arnaud Esquerre is a sociologist and Director of Research at the CNRS, France. He is the co-author of Enrichment.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Luc Boltanski 是巴黎高等社會科學院(EHESS)的社會學教授,著有多本書籍,包括《資本主義的新精神》(與 Eve Chiapello 合著)和《豐富化》(與 Arnaud Esquerre 合著)。
Arnaud Esquerre 是一位社會學家,也是法國國家科學研究中心(CNRS)的研究主任。他是《豐富化》的共同作者。