{"product_id":"9780745660240","title":"Listening Publics The Politics and Experience of Listening in the Media Age","description":"\u003ch1\u003eListening Publics\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe Politics and Experience of Listening in the Media Age\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eKate Lacey\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Media Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn focusing on the practices, politics and ethics of listening, this  wide-ranging book offers an important new perspective on questions of  media audiences, publics and citizenship. Listening is central to modern  communication, politics and experience, but is commonly overlooked and  underestimated in a culture fascinated by the spectacle and the politics  of voice. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eListening Publics\u003c\/i\u003e restores listening to  media history and to theories of the public sphere. In so doing it opens  up profound questions for our understanding of mediated experience,  public participation and civic engagement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking a  cross-national and interdisciplinary approach, the book explores how  listening publics have been constituted in relation to successive media  technologies from the invention of writing to the digital age. It asks  how new practices of listening associated with sound and audiovisual  media transform a public world forged in the age of print. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough detailed histories and sophisticated theoretical analysis, \u003ci\u003eListening Publics\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the embodied and critical activity of listening to be a  rich concept with which to rethink the practices, politics and ethics of  media communication.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e Kate Lacey is senior lecturer in media and cultural studies at the University of Sussex.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e13 May 2013\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePolity Press\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePolity\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9780745660240\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e248\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e17.76\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44378456817804,"sku":"9780745660240","price":65.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780745660240_8f869002-f615-44cf-b914-f9661bcd6612.jpg?v=1780238306","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9780745660240","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}