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  1. A significant exception is Jacobs and Townsley, The Space of Opinion: Media Intellectuals and the Public Sphere (2011), whose cultural-sociological approach and democracy-related theorizing is limited only by its neglect of the news side of journalism.

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Alexander, J.C. Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences: Introduction to Special Section Cultural Sociology and Journalism. Fudan J. Hum. Soc. Sci. 8, 1–7 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40647-014-0055-6

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