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Publication details [#46411]

Miller, Laura, Peter Lunt and S. Livingstone. 2007. Citizens, consumers and the citizen-consumer: articulating the citizen interest in media and communications regulation. Discourse & Communication 1 (1) : 63–89.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | critical discourse analysis | institutional context | interest | mass media

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Annotation

This paper use a critical discursive perspective to explore the regulation of the ‘citizen-consumer’ interests by the U.K. Office of Communications, founded by an Act of Parliament in 2003. It advocates the construction of a positive definition of citizen interests, differing from consumer interests, for media and communications regulation.