The 'Media Consumption and Public Connection' project has been reported in Couldry, N., Livingstone, S., and Markham, T. (2010) Public Connection? Media Consumption and the Presumption of Attention (2nd ed.). Houndmills: Palgrave.
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The final project report is available here. It observes that, underlying many views of democratic politics is an assumption that shared media sustain people's connection to the public spaces where politics goes on and citizenship is enacted. But how is that connection sustained, and how do individuals think about the ways in which they are, or are not, connected to wider public spaces? Related publications are below:
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Livingstone, S. (2005) On the relation between audiences and publics. In S. Livingstone (Ed.), Audiences and Publics: When Cultural Engagement Matters for the Public Sphere (17-41). Bristol: Intellect.
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Livingstone, S. (2005) Critical debates in internet studies: Reflections on an emerging field. In Curran, J., and Gurevitch, M. (Eds.), Mass Media and Society, Fifth Ed (9-28). London: Sage.
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Livingstone, S., and Markham, T. (2008) The contribution of media consumption to civic participation. British Journal of Sociology, 59(2): 351-371.
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Couldry, N., Livingstone, S., and Markham, T. (2008) 'Public connection' and the uncertain norms of media consumption. In K. Soper and F. Trentman (Eds.), Citizenship and Consumption (104-120). London: Palgrave Macmillan.