The Deliberative System and Inter-Connected Media in Times of Uncertainty

Adopting a systemic perspective, this book explores media-based communication and reason-giving as a linkage process that transcends time and space. Arguments, reasoning perspectives and emotional concerns link elites' and citizens' political judgement within and across a set of interrelated arenas in the political system.

Offers a multidimensional analytical framework to articulate micro and macro levels of deliberative theory Interfaces between deliberation and the hybrid media environment Explores the functioning of institutions and disturbances in the public sphere

Autorentext
Rousiley C.M. Maia is Professor of Political Communication at the Federal University of Minas Gerais.

Gabriella Hauber was a postdoctoral researcher at the Federal University of Minas Gerais when this book was written. She is currently Assistant Professor of Communication at the Federal Technological University of Curitiba

Tariq Choucair was a doctoral student at the Federal University of Minas Gerais when this book was written. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Digital Media Research Center at the Queensland University of Technology.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Normative Controversies: Challenges to Apply a Systemic Approach to Deliberation.- 3. Bringing the Public Sphere and the Media Back to the Systemic Approach.- 4. Justifications as a Linkage Mechanism.- 5. Reason-Giving across Arenas: Elite Actors.- 6. Reason-Giving across Arenas: Broader Public of Citizens.- 7. The Emotional Dimension of Reason-Giving.- 8. Emotions and Reasoning in Divided Groups.- 9. Conclusion and Research Outlook.