{"product_id":"the-making-of-public-space-news-events-and-opinions-in-the-twenty-first-century-hardback-9781509562770","title":"The Making of Public Space; News, Events and Opinions in the Twenty-First Century (Hardback) 9781509562770","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Making of Public Space\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNews, Events and Opinions in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLuc Boltanski (Author), Arnaud Esquerre (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509562770, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 December 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.8 x 3 cm, 0.567 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Making of Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e is about nothing less than how humans produce a shared sense of what they have in common and how they elevate issues to politics. Once again, Boltanski and Esquerre deliver their magic: deeply steeped in pragmatism, their strikingly original book combines convincing theoretical arguments about world-making with richly informed empirical insights. The result is a path-breaking analysis that should inform frontier thinking across the social sciences.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichèle Lamont, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Making of Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e offers a theoretically informed and empirically grounded account of the two broad processes through which public opinion is formed.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Foster, \u003ci\u003eOxford Political\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eReview\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Given the abundance of news and news coverage of the world today, the relevance of this work is especially timely.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmerican Association of Geographers Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eNews as a global culture\u003cbr\u003eThe corpuses of data on which this work has focused \u003cbr\u003eThe empirical analysis of the politicization and formation of ‘opinions’\u003cbr\u003eCrowds, masses, networks\u003cbr\u003eDemocracy as it is\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI \u003cbr\u003eBeing immersed in the news\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. The presence and periodization of the inaccessible\u003cbr\u003eThe consistency of the Now\u003cbr\u003eKnowing by experience or by hearsay\u003cbr\u003eThe accessible and the inaccessible\u003cbr\u003eWhat news in which history?\u003cbr\u003eTime’s arrow\u003cbr\u003eSome problems of historical periodization\u003cbr\u003eThe formation of planes of news items\u003cbr\u003eThe news in the eyes of its critics (1): inauthenticity\u003cbr\u003eThe news in the eyes of its critics (2): fake democracy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The process of the event\u003cbr\u003eNews, History and the need to select  \u003cbr\u003eSelection and censorship\u003cbr\u003eThe truth of facts, the adequacy of interpretations\u003cbr\u003eTrouble with events\u003cbr\u003eThe coalescence of facts in the plane of news items   \u003cbr\u003eThe de-composition and deconstruction of events\u003cbr\u003ePrecedents\u003cbr\u003ePrimary facts and derived facts: the worth and force of an event\u003cbr\u003ePolitical facts as a series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDocument 1. History (with a capital H) and history\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Political events and the formation of generations\u003cbr\u003eThe salience of events\u003cbr\u003eBreak or continuity: a question of scale\u003cbr\u003eAt what scale does Le Monde view the world (le monde)? The obituary test\u003cbr\u003eBreaks in institutional continuity\u003cbr\u003eThe role of major political events in the formation of generations\u003cbr\u003eStructural collectives and generational collectives\u003cbr\u003e‘Our generation!’\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII\u003cbr\u003ePoliticization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDocument 2. Plot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Political discussion\u003cbr\u003eConversation or discussion\u003cbr\u003eThe risks of political discussion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDocument 3. Medias\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Le Monde and its readers: between news and History\u003cbr\u003eLe Monde as a news organ and quasi-institution\u003cbr\u003eLe Monde and History\u003cbr\u003eJournalists and their readers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDocument 4. Censured\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. The structure of comments on the news\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePre-texts and comments\u003cbr\u003eThe constraints on utterance\u003cbr\u003eContesting the truth of the facts: the 11 September 2001 attacks, with comments made on INA Société\u003cbr\u003eDiscussion, moderation and commercial censorship \u003cbr\u003eCommenting is not denouncing\u003cbr\u003eThe irony of the commentators\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDocument 5. What are their names?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. The work of ‘one’\u003cbr\u003eThe intense pleasure of comment\u003cbr\u003eStates of mind\u003cbr\u003eAnonymity and mishmash\u003cbr\u003eThe ‘one’ of the news\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDocument 6. Readers’ replies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Politicizing the news\u003cbr\u003eWhat are they thinking of?\u003cbr\u003eWhat is a political problem?\u003cbr\u003eThe process of politicization\u003cbr\u003eMedically assisted procreation, from the non-political to politics\u003cbr\u003ePolitical shifts\u003cbr\u003eTalking about Islam\u003cbr\u003eDifferent shifts in the notion of environmentalism\u003cbr\u003eWhen politics proves to be ‘inextricable’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDocument 7. ‘Generations’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. The dynamics of politicization\u003cbr\u003eShifting positions and generation conflicts\u003cbr\u003ePolitical problems and ideologies\u003cbr\u003eThreats and remedies\u003cbr\u003eFeeding into politicization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDocument 8. ‘Democracy’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion. The meaning of History\u003cbr\u003eInterpretation: between adequacy and violence\u003cbr\u003e‘On the right’ or ‘on the left’: the political description of interpretations\u003cbr\u003eTowards the extreme\u003cbr\u003ePolitics and desolation\u003cbr\u003eThe digitalization of struggles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendices\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConceptual lexicon\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441814499608,"sku":"9781509562770","price":46.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509562770.jpg?v=1785026884","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-making-of-public-space-news-events-and-opinions-in-the-twenty-first-century-hardback-9781509562770","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}