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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society

John Durham Peters
- 01 Jan 1991 - 
- Vol. 72, Iss: 2
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This article is published in Quarterly Journal of Speech.The article was published on 1991-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 4902 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Public sphere.

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Towards Safe City Centres?: Remaking the Spaces of an Old-Industrial City

Gesa Helms
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the importance of crime control, policing and community safety in a series of empirical cuts through the subject, starting with wider issues of crime controlled, imagineering and city centre upgrading.
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Broke Not Broken: Rights, Privacy, and Homelessness in Seattle

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Nationalism and Diaspora in Cyberspace: The case of the Kurdish diaspora on social media

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Polite Anarchy in International Relations Theory

TL;DR: The Polite Anarchy and Diplomacy of the Polite Anarchists as mentioned in this paper is an example of such an international theory of anarchy and anarchy in the 1790s in the UK.
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Journalists’ Normative Constructions of Political Viewpoint Diversity

TL;DR: The authors explored how political journalists conceptualize the portrayal of political viewpoint diversity as a journalistic norm, particularly in light of changes to news and the news media ecology, and the implications for the journalistic field and field theory are considered.
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Varieties of Participation in Complex Governance

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop a framework for understanding the range of institutional possibilities for public participation, including who participates, how participants communicate with one another and make decisions together, and how discussions are linked with policy or public action.
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Social Network Sites as Networked Publics: Affordances, Dynamics, and Implications

danah boyd
TL;DR: Ito et al. as discussed by the authors argue that publics can be reactors, re-makers and re-distributors, engaging in shared culture and knowledge through discourse and social exchange as well as through acts of media reception.
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A New Era of Minimal Effects? The Changing Foundations of Political Communication

TL;DR: For instance, this article pointed out that people have become increasingly detached from overarching institutions such as public schools, political parties, and civic groups, which at one time provided a shared context for receiving and interpreting messages.
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The virtual sphere: The internet as a public sphere

TL;DR: The internet and its surrounding technologies hold the promise of reviving the public sphere; however, several aspects of these new technologies simultaneously curtail and augment that potential as discussed by the authors, and it is possible that internet-based technologies will adapt themselves to the current political culture, rather than create a new one.
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Democracy online: civility, politeness, and the democratic potential of online political discussion groups:

TL;DR: The study results revealed that most messages posted on political newsgroups were civil, and suggested that because the absence of face-to-face communication fostered more heated discussion, cyberspace might actually promote Lyotard's vision of democratic emancipation through disagreement and anarchy.