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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
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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.read more
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The Influence of Social Networking Sites on Political Behavior: Modeling Political Involvement via Online and Offline Activity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used social networking sites (SNSs) to mobilize support among voters in the 2008 Presidential election (e.g., Charles, 2012) and the 2012 Congressional election.
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New Modes of Intellectual Life in the Network Society
TL;DR: Lang et al. as discussed by the authors examined the Anonymous network, as well as the 4chan imageboard from which Anonymous emerged, to explore the status of intellectual life today and the ways in which networks are using technology and leveraging changes in media structures to create alternative discourses and recast the terms of public debate.
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Does the Internet create democracy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the potential of the Internet as a site for a revitalized public sphere, including interactive capabilities and the capacity to promulgate expanded ranges of views.
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Interaction and Transformation on Social Media: The Case of Twitter Campaigns
William Housley,Helena Webb,Meredydd Williams,Rob Procter,Adam Michael Edwards,Marina Jirotka,Peter Burnap,Bernd Carsten Stahl,Omer Rana,Matthew Williams +9 more
TL;DR: The authors performed a detailed analysis of Twitter-based online campaigns and developed a typology of user exchanges, finding that these social media campaigns were highly heterogeneous in content, with a wide range of actions performed and substantial numbers of tweets not engaged with the substance of the campaign.
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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
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
W. Lance Bennett,Shanto Iyengar +1 more
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.