Editorial: When All Speak but Few Listen—Asymmetries in Political Conversation

Hernando Rojas and William P. Eveland, Jr.
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Hernando Rojas: School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA
William P. Eveland, Jr.: School of Communication, The Ohio State University, USA

Media and Communication, 2025, vol. 13

Abstract: This thematic issue looks at political conversation with a focus on political listening and seeks to advance an empirical approach to listening. Listening here means not just media exposure or co-presence in conversation, but as Benjamin Barber (2003, p. 175) argues in his book Strong Democracy , it means “I will put myself in his place, I will try to understand, I will strain to hear what makes us alike, I will listen for a common rhetoric evocative of a common purpose or a common good.”

Keywords: being heard; communicative rationality; deliberation; listening; political conversation; political listening (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.17645/mac.11121

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