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标题：Mediated Politics and Everyday Life
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作者：Stephen Coleman
期刊名称：International Journal of Communication
印刷版ISSN：1932-8036
出版年度：2007
卷号：01
期号：01
页码：12-12
出版社：USC Annenberg Center
摘要：The construction, representation and reproduction of everyday life as a political domain has been a central theme in the work of Roger Silverstone and constitutes his most important legacy to social theory. Conceiving everyday life as a site of sense-making and negotiation, of the taken for granted and the taken by surprise, of finding and making, Silverstone offers us a way out of the false dichotomy between everyday life as imposed ideology (the dystopian perspective) and resistant populism (the utopian perspective). In this brief essay, I want to explore the tensions between finding and making reality in the context of contemporary anxieties about the disconnection of mediated politics from everyday life. In particular, I want to reflect upon what I consider to be the profound relevance of Silverstone¡¯s conception of the media as potential space to the burdens of democratic citizenship. The political domain, in the broadest sense of the circulation and reproduction of power, as well as its institutional settings and boundaries, were never far from Silverstone¡¯s work; indeed, they were often accorded a conceptual reverence which regarded the political as the central locus of communicative contestation. But this was not a domain to which Silverstone paid much explicit attention in most of his work; perhaps he found its moral thinness unsettling. This essay constitutes an attempt to make this connection.