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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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Inventing Enlightenment's Gender. The Representation of Modernity in Dispute

TL;DR: In the philosophical and cultural controversy between modernity and postmodernism, one often gets the feeling that'modernity' is being reduced to an implausible simplicity as mentioned in this paper, which is an attempt to counter that reductionism and the resulting opposition.
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Community Engagement in a Neoliberal Paradigm.

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Scottish missions and religious enlightenment in Colonial America: the SSPCK in transatlantic context

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of the colonial missionary work of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge (SSPCK) is presented, which examines the relationship between evangelism and the British and American Enlightenment.
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Talkback, community and the public sphere

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Édouard Vuillard: Painting Disease and Infirmity in Fin-de-Siècle Paris

TL;DR: Carroll and Datta as discussed by the authors were two of the most important advisors for the course of this project, providing insight, kindness, and enthusiasm throughout this challenging research endeavor, and the members of their thesis committee provided great support and thoughtful counsel.
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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.