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1. The Role of Media Deepening Democracy by Shelie S. Coronel. 2. News is a Public Good by Julia Cagé. 3. America's Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporation Libertarianism by Victor Packard. 4. Media, Democracy and the Public Sphere by James Deane. 5.Feminism, the Public Sphere, Media and Democracy by Lisa McLaughlin

The articles that I have gathered will allow me to explain about media democracy and how it can affect the media with the people involved in it. The articles talk about how media democracy involves it being public when giving information and there work is non-profit. It also talks about the public sphere, a public network of communicating information and point of views, and how it is related to to public democracy's role in sharing information. Out of the articles that I picked, the one I feel is most connected to my topic and the one I would like to explore most is the "Media, Democracy and Public Sphere" article. This article talks about what the public sphere is and it's connection to media democracy, which is huge in media democracy because it is about talking about information and media democracy is about free use of media and sharing the information. Information of what is going on in the world should be shared to the public because it might affect them in a matter of time, media democracy is about the free use of public information in the media and the public sphere is about communicating that information to the public.

Article Critique: I am thinking that the article has a clear definition of media democracy, tells that media democracy is media being used for democracy to provide information for people in the public and that the media promotes democracy. Media democracy is about is about the free use of media and strengthening public public broadcasts and that information through the information it provides people with public information of what is going on in the world by being more open to the public and not keeping it's media information private. The sources of the information that provides the definition of media literacy comes from books about media democracy and quality online articles to clarify the definition of media literacy of what the content of those sources. The citations are used to provide the names of the sources, if they're online sources it can takes us to the source's URL. The information used for the article's definition section is meant to describe what media democracy is about, however the information that the writers wrote made sure that what they wrote stays neutral and don't pick sides that if media democracy should preferred in media use or not. The article seems to stay neutral about defining media democracy, not choosing sides to influence readers to support or be against it, only to provide information about it with sources and links to tell readers on what they found and where. The sources the article used and social movements that support media democracy that are mentioned relate to what the article talks about, but one thing that intrigues me is that the movements don't have much information on the page and should be expanded some more. When the definition section talks about what advocates media democracy, it lacks the citations of where the information it came from, I think that citations should be needed there. Aside from these faults that I observed, this article has a clear definition about media democracy and has quality sources of to provide it's information.Nick Mundy (talk) 14:56, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

Article Draft: Media Democracy: The media’s relationship with democracy has allowed people to contribute and provide information to the media. Since media democracy allows people the right to participate in media, it extends the media’s relationship to the public sphere. “The public sphere can be best described as a network of communicating information and points of view, which is reproduced through communicative action” (Deane, 2006). The public sphere has been a way for people to gather information to share with others along with their own opinions of how they feel about the information they found.

Media democracy and public sphere have their own relationship because of their functions towards the media. “New forms of computer mediated communication were envisioned as creating public spaces for the free engagement of citizens in deliberation and public debate” (Vatikiotis, 2014). The media can be observed by anyone who watches it and media democracy gives people the right to participate in media if they have any information they want to contribute and to be shared to the media. Media democracy has given people opportunities to become part of media by allowing them to participate in media and the public sphere has allowed people to share the information they have to others in the media and express their opinions on the information they discovered.

Media Democracy Contribution: The media’s relationship with democracy has allowed people the right to participate in media and share the information they found and want to contribute to the people through the media. Since media democracy allows people the right to participate in media, it extends the media’s relationship to the public sphere, where the information that is gathered and can be viewed and shared by the people. The public sphere is described as a network of communicating information and points of view from people, which is reproduced through communicative action through the media to the public. The relationship of media democracy and the public sphere extends to various types of media, such as social media and mainstream media, in order for people to communicate with one another through digital media and share the information they want to publish to the public.

The public sphere can be seen as a theater in modern societies in which political participation is enacted through a medium of talk and a realm of social life which public opinion can be formed. The public sphere is also a democratic system that is open to any free citizen who would like to participate in media if they have any information they would like to share to society. The public sphere has changed because of the development of mass communication, giving people opportunities to participate in media and the right to share information through all channels of communications. The democracy of the public sphere is in the participation of citizens who provide information to the media and share it to society. Nick Mundy (talk) 03:20, 2 December 2016 (UTC)