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In order to understand how awareness about policy issues can be created in the public sphere, we need to take a look at the conditions for how the mass media and journalism operate in contemporary society. Before discussing different forms of journalism in more detail we shall, however, take a more theoretical approach and explore the concept of the ‘public sphere’.
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Andersson, K. (2008). The Public Sphere — Mass Media and Journalism. In: Transparency and Accountability in Science and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230227767_15
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