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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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BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERNITY: Determining Spatial Systems of Privacy in the Domestic Architecture of Contemporary Iraq

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate privacy and everyday life as determinants of the physical properties of the built and urban fabric and study their impact on traditional settlements and architecture of the home in the contemporary Iraqi city.
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Clicks or Pulitzers? Web Journalists and Their Work in the United States and France

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the reception of metriques internet dans des salles de redaction web en France and aux Etats-Unis, deux pays aux traditions journalistiques differentes.
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Museums, Diasporas and the Sustainability of Intangible Cultural Heritage

TL;DR: In this article, the work of museums in constructing the intangible cultural heritage of migration and diasporas is discussed, focusing on the cultural dimension of sustainability and examining what happens to living traditions in migratory contexts, in particular in contexts of international migrations.
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The Sociology of Religion of W.E.B. Du Bois

TL;DR: Du Bois' work in the sociology of religion is characterized by a reliance upon standard and diverse sociological methods in generating data; a focus on the religious life of African Americans, and pioneering special attention to the this-worldly, communal, specifically social rewards which religious affiliation provides as discussed by the authors.
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A long history of breakdowns: A historiographical review.

TL;DR: It is argued that network breakdowns play an important and unacknowledged role in the shaping and emergence of scientific knowledge and the strength of institutions and macro-networks often relies on ideological regimes of standardization and instrumentation that can flexibly replace elements and individuals at will.
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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.