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No amount of communication, however stylish and informative, will engage people in politics, unless they are paying attention, at least some of the time. If, with apologies to Plato (and his famous cave metaphor), we can imagine political events as projected onto a wall, then democracy depends on people’s backs not already being turned away from that wall.
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© 2010 Nick Couldry, Sonia Livingstone and Tim Markham
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Couldry, N., Livingstone, S., Markham, T. (2010). Democracy and the Presumption of Attention. In: Media Consumption and Public Engagement. Consumption and Public Life. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230800823_1
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