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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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Civic culture and citizenship : the nature of urban governance in interwar Manchester and Chicago

Tom Hulme
TL;DR: The unabridged version of this paper can be consulted, on request, at the University of Leicester's David Wilson Library as discussed by the authors, on the basis of a request from the author.
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Two Faces of Authority: The leader's tragic quest

TL;DR: Besselink and Thieu as discussed by the authors argue that modern authority itself has disintegrated with the change of its understanding and the diffusion of fixed authoritative roles and that this is accompanied by an identity crisis.
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The Difference States Make: Democracy, Identity, and the American City

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make the case that arguments for tolerating, for recognizing, and for deliberating across extant differences are insufficiently attentive to the role states play in making difference.
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Las redes sociales en la Administración General del Estado: factores jurídicos e institucionales

TL;DR: For several decades the political and constitutional system of our State has been suffering different reforms in relation to the functioning of its administrative apparatus, the Central Administration as discussed by the authors, which has the common background of adapting public management to contemporary scenarios of the knowledge society in order to, preserving the bureaucratic model that sustains it, maximize the value offered to a society in continuous transformation.
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Civil Society Action and Governance in Vietnam: Selected Findings from an Empirical Survey

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present findings from 300 standardized interviews with representatives of Civic Organizations in Ho Chi Minh-City and Ha Noi and reveal the existence of core dimensions of such action (respect, empathy/ sympathy, and the willingness to compromise and stick to agreed-upon rules), though the respective values of those dimensions vary strongly.
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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.