Talk on television : audience participation and public debate /
Sonia Livingstone and Peter Lunt.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
- 201 p. ; 24 cm.
- Communication and society .
- Communication and society (Routledge (Firm)) .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-197) and index.
1. Television talk and talking about television -- 2. The mass media, democracy and the public sphere -- 3. Studio debates and audience discussions: a television genre -- 4. The critical viewer -- 5. Media constructions of expertise and common sense -- 6. Media management of argument and rhetoric -- 7. Studio discussions, social spaces and postmodernity -- Appendix 1: Data collection -- Appendix 2: Programme selection -- Appendix 3: Coding of focus group discussions.