{"title":"Natalie Fenton","description":"\u003cp\u003eNatalie Fenton’s work offers insightful explorations into the intersections of media, politics, and society. Her books critically examine how digital technologies shape democratic processes and challenge traditional political narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in contemporary political thought and the complexities of the digital age will find her analyses both thought-provoking and grounded in current debates, making her collection essential for those engaged with \u003cem\u003ePolitics \u0026amp; Current Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"digital-political-radical-by-natalie-fenton-9780745650876","title":"Digital, Political, Radical","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDigital, Political, Radical\u003c\/em\u003e is a siren call to the field of media and communications and the study of social and political movements. We must put the politics of transformation at the very heart of our analyses to meet the global challenges of gross inequality and ever-more impoverished democracies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFenton makes an impassioned plea for re-invigorating critical research on digital media such that it can be explanatory, practical and normative. She dares us to be politically emboldened. She urges us to seek out an emancipatory politics that aims to deepen our democratic horizons. To ask: how can we do democracy better? What are the conditions required to live together well? Then, what is the role of the media and how can we reclaim media, power and politics for progressive ends? Journeying through a range of protest and political movements, Fenton debunks myths of digital media along the way and points us in the direction of newly emergent politics of the Left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDigital, Political, Radical\u003c\/em\u003e contributes to political debate on contemporary (re)configurations of radical progressive politics through a consideration of how we experience (counter) politics in the digital age and how this may influence our being political.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462844858604,"sku":"9780745650876","price":40.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780745650876-digital-political-radical.jpg?v=1775024265"},{"product_id":"democratic-delusions-by-natalie-fenton-9781509548484","title":"Democratic Delusions","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA free media is inextricably linked to a healthy democracy, but in many parts of the world liberal democracies are deemed to be dying or on the demise – a demise that many forms of media have enabled while heralding themselves as democracy’s saviour. The hollowing out of democracy in these ways has left many people questioning the value of (neo)liberal democratic societies. What can we do about it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDemocratic Delusions\u003c\/em\u003e explores the potential of our media and tech systems to be democratic and contribute to a just and transformative democracy. This is only possible, Natalie Fenton argues, by first situating our political systems and mediated worlds within global capitalism. By interrogating different media and their relationship to seven key elements of democracy – power, participation, freedom, equality, public good, trust, and hope – the book asks: What is the response of society when the ability of news media to speak truth to power has been restricted by corporate logic? And, how do we tackle a deep-rooted market logic that shifts public debate towards private interest and marginalises progressive perspectives?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book explores how these elements can be reimagined through newly conceived media and tech landscapes and, ultimately, what democracy might be in a future mediated world that places more power in the hands of more people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is essential reading for students and scholars of media and communications, journalism, political communications, political science, and sociology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlso available as an audiobook, narrated by the author.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47536537141484,"sku":"9781509548484","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509548484-democratic-delusions.jpg?v=1776382581"},{"product_id":"misunderstanding-the-internet-by-james-curran-9781138906204","title":"Misunderstanding the Internet","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe growth of the internet has been spectacular. There are now more than 3 billion internet users across the globe, some 40 per cent of the world’s population. The internet’s meteoric rise is a phenomenon of enormous significance for the economic, political and social life of contemporary societies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHowever, much popular and academic writing about the internet continues to take a celebratory view, assuming that the internet’s potential will be realised in essentially positive and transformative ways. This was especially true in the euphoric moment of the mid-1990s, when many commentators wrote about the internet with awe and wonderment. 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