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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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A Discourse Theory of Citizenship
TL;DR: The authors proposed a discourse theory of citizenship as a mode of public engagement and argued that citizenship engagement may be approached through potential foci of generativity, risk, commitment, creativity, and sociability.
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How do public libraries function as meeting places
TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of the population in three townships in Oslo, each with a markedly different demographic profile, is surveyed, and multivariate regression analyses are performed to analyze why some people use the library for a range of meetings and others do not.
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Association, Sociability, and Civic Culture: The Democratic Effect of Community Gardening
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the democratic values of community garden leaders and non-leaders with the intent to understand the democratic effects of participation in community gardening. But they found that time spent in a community garden was a stronger predictor of political citizenship orientations than was time spent talking and visiting with other community gardeners.
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Putting the State on the Map: Cartography, Territory, and European State Formation
TL;DR: The transformation of their world into ours, the way the state was put on the map, is the subject of this essay as discussed by the authors, and the transformation of the world into our world into their world is discussed in detail in this paper.
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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.