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Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
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This article is published in Review of Metaphysics.The article was published on 1997-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2568 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Democracy.read more
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No Contest? Assessing the Agonistic Critiques of Jürgen Habermas’s Theory of the Public Sphere
TL;DR: The authors argue that the deliberative theory of the public sphere actually facilitates the development of the agonistic approach to democratic theory and practice, and explore one of the fundamental assumptionsat work in the debate about the theory of public sphere's status, namely the assumed opposition between consensus and contestation.
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Mapping eParticipation Research: Four Central Challenges
Jeremy Rose,Clive Sanford +1 more
TL;DR: A definitional schema is developed that suggests different ways of understanding an emerging socio-technical research area and is used to map the research contributions identified and makes an initial sketch of the scientific character of the area and its central concerns, theories, and methods.
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From Public Spaces to Public Sphere
Rodrigo Zamith,Seth C. Lewis +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined how journalists and technologists are re-imagining the construction of networked, dynamic spaces for online news discussion through a qualitative study of 126 idea submissions to a popular news innovation contest.
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Press-Public Collaboration as Infrastructure Tracing News Organizations and Programming Publics in Application Programming Interfaces
TL;DR: This article examines press-public collaboration by tracing how and why news organizations both distance themselves from and depend on networked actors outside the newsroom to achieve professional and organizational goals.
Dissertation
The use and regulation of private military companies
TL;DR: In this article, the use and regulation of private military companies (PMCs) in international law is investigated by exploring historical patterns of the use of private force and analysing the effectiveness and applicability of contemporary attempts to regulate PMCs.
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The New Public Sphere: Global Civil Society, Communication Networks, and Global Governance
TL;DR: Public diplomacy, as the diplomacy of the public, not of the government, intervenes in this global public sphere, laying the ground for traditional forms of diplomacy to act beyond the strict negotiation of power relationships by building on shared... as mentioned in this paper.
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Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism
TL;DR: Tweets and the Streets as mentioned in this paper examines the relationship between the rise of social media and the emergence of new forms of protest, arguing that activists' use of Twitter and Facebook does not fit with the image of a "cyberspace" detached from physical reality.
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