The centrality of reciprocity to communication and democracy

1 June 1991

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Critical Studies in Mass Communication

Vol. 8 (2) , 184-194
https://doi.org/10.1080/15295039109366790

Abstract

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.

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