Book reviews: Letters to the Editor. Comparative and Historical Perspectives by Allison Cavanagh and John Steel

Dryzek J ( 2009) Democratization as deliberative capacity building. Comparative Political Studies 42( 11): 1379– 1402.

Habermas J ( 1989) The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. Cambridge: Polity.

Kapoor S ( 1995) Most papers receive more letters. The Masthead 47( 2): 5– 9.

Kovarik B ( 2016) Revolutions in Communication: Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age. New York: Continuum.

Kunst M Porten-Cheé P Emmer M , et al. ( 2021) Do “good citizens” fight hate speech online? Effects of solidarity citizenship norms on user responses to hate comments. Journal of Information Technology & Politics 18( 3): 258– 273.

Lemert JB Larkin J ( 1979) Some reasons why mobilizing information fails to be in letters to the editor. Journalism Quarterly 56: 504– 512.

Moreno R ( 2006) Citizens and media cultures: Hidden behind democratic formality. Global Media and Communication 2( 3): 299– 313.

Papacharissi Z ( 2009) The citizen is the message: Alternative modes of civic engagement. In: Papacharissi Z (ed.) Journalism and Citizenship: New Agendas in Communication. New York and London: Routledge, pp. 29– 43.

Peters HP Dunwoody S Allgaier J , et al. ( 2014) Public communication of science 2.0: Is the communication of science via the “new media” online a genuine transformation or old wine in new bottles? EMBO Reports 15( 7): 749– 753.

Ribeiro F ( 2017) Opinião pública nos média em Portugal: quem participa e porquê? [Public Opinion in the Portuguese Media: Who Participates and Why?]. Braga: Communication and Society Research Centre – University of Minho.

Wahl-Jorgensen K ( 2002) The construction of the public in letters to the editor: Deliberative democracy and the idiom of insanity. Journalism 3( 2): 183– 204.