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The Mediatization of Democracy, and the Specter of Critical Media Engagement

Are the Medium and the Message Still Relevant?

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In the 21st century, most nations, including those throughout the Westernized world, are multimedia societies wherein citizens are, for the most part, media saturated, technologically dependent, and globally connected. Social media, broad access to the internet, and hi-speed communications of all sorts have changed the traditional paradigm of how information, news and communications are developed, massaged and disseminated, or as Chomsky has famously put it, manufactured.

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    Paul R. Carr (Associate Professor)

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  1. University of Alberta, Canada

    Lynette Shultz

  2. University of Alberta, Canada

    Tania Kajner

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Carr, P.R. (2013). The Mediatization of Democracy, and the Specter of Critical Media Engagement. In: Shultz, L., Kajner, T. (eds) Engaged Scholarship. Comparative and International Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-290-7_12

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