Public Screen

1. In DeLuca and Peeples the 'Public Screen' simply refers to the mass media that the public is subjected to.

2. This term can easily be seen in the World Trade Organization protests which occurred in Seattle, Washington. Due to the riots that broke out, the mass media and public screen greatly twisted and blew out of proportion certain elements, turning the focus of the protest from the actual protest cause, to the violence which occurred.

3. "The concept of the public screen enables scholars to account for the technological and cultural changes of the 20th century, changes that have transformed the rules and roles of participatory democracy." (DeLuca and Peeples 184)