The Space of Opinion describes and analyzes the complex space of commentary and opinion in the news media.

• Chapter 1. Media Commentary and the Space of Opinion


• Chapter 2. A History of Opinion in the U.S. Media


• Chapter 3. Media and Opinion Formation: Toward a New Theory of Deliberative Politics


• Chapter 4. Who Speaks in the Space of Opinion?


• Chapter 5. Formats and Norms in the U.S. Space of Opinion


• Chapter 6. Rhetorics in the Space of Contemporary U.S. Opinion


• Chapter 7. The Enron Scandal


• Chapter 8. The War on Terror


• Chapter 9. The Future of Opinion

Ronald N. Jacobs is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York and author of Race, Media, and the Crisis of Civil Society: From Watts to Rodney King.
Eleanor Townsley is Associate Professor of Sociology at Mount Holyoke College and co-author of Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe.