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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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Women's ski jumping, the 2010 Olympic games, and the deafening silence of sex segregation, whiteness, and wealth

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate that Canadian (and western) citizenship was contested in this legal battle and that gendered, raced, and classed dimensions of citizenship were at play, drawing on critical feminist and critical race theorizing on citizenship.
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The Information World of Parents: A Study of the Use and Understanding of Information by Parents of Young Children

TL;DR: This article examines how a group of thirty-three parents in Leeds, United Kingdom looked for, accessed, and assessed information and supports the notion of a need to view information literacy as part of a complex socially constructed paradigm.
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Analyzing Ideological Discourse on Social Media: A Case Study of the Abortion Debate

TL;DR: This article analyzed the discourse around abortion on Twitter through analysis of language and the manifested socio-cultural practices and found that abortion discourse can be classified into three ideologies: For, Against, and Neutral to Abortion.
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The return of the public domain after the triumph of markets : Revisiting the most basic of fundamentals

TL;DR: In the post-Seattle and post-Washington consensus world order, a new kind of state is emerging with its own particular institutions, practices and innovative forms as theorized by Held (1995) and Castells (1996) as discussed by the authors.
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Introduction: Autonomy and Creative Labour

TL;DR: In the past decade, creativity and creative work have become powerful tropes in contemporary social life as mentioned in this paper, and younger generations are moving to urban areas where creative work is available and identi...
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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.