Critical Theory Approaches to Historical Questions of Media &Democracy

The questions of what to do with mass communication and mass media, and what mass communication and the mass media have done and are doing, or what mass communication and the mass media should do and not be doing, have always engaged scholars, policy makers, educators, foundations, governments, journalists and writers in all ages and different sociopolitical and religious dispensations. Due to their urgency, inevitability and relevance for all times, such questions have come to be known as the historical questions of communication, media and democracy, in a world where the dangers and benefits of mass communication and mass media are at door steps and our finger tips, but need not be allowed to overwhelm and ruin us. This book, citing Fuchs (2017) and Hardy (2014), provides a discursive situating of the historical questions of communication, media and democracy, into the need for continuous awareness for using communication, media and democracy for achieving better life for people and society as projected in the enduring humanitarian values that inspired the questions by Peters and Simonson (2004:1).