This article concerns the political lives of citizens and the importance of communication to democratic practices. The distinctions between elite democratic theory and participatory democratic theory, and the concept of reciprocity, are explored in terms of their implications for mass‐mediated communications and their abilities (or inabilities) to serve democratic systems.
Critical Studies in Mass Communication
Volume 8, 1991 - Issue 2
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