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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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Nomadic education: variations on a theme by Deleuze and Guattari

Inna Semetsky
TL;DR: The authors investigate, assess and apply a philosophy of education drawn from the great French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, and provide very useful situations within the philosophy, notably in terms of new technologies and original methods.
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Gender Inequality in Deliberation: Unpacking the Black Box of Interaction

TL;DR: The authors found that women experience a negative balance of interruptions when speaking, and these women then lose influence in their own eyes and in others' when the group is assigned tounanimous rule, or when women are many.
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Online feminist protest against sexism: the German-language hashtag #aufschrei

TL;DR: This article explored the role of online feminist protest in the construction of alternative meanings, drawing on theories of the public sphere, and argued that Twitter adopts the function of a simple public, where values and norms are negotiated at an everyday level.
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Common Ground?: Readings and Reflections on Public Space

TL;DR: Locating Public Space Part I -Public Space as Civil Order Introduction The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces - William H. Whyte The Character of Third Places - Ray Oldenburg The Moral Order of Strangers - M. P. Baumgartner Street Etiquette and Street Wisdom - Elijah Anderson PART II - Public Space as Power and Resistance Introduction The End of Public Space? People's Park, Definitions of the Public, and Democracy - Don Mitchell Fortress Los Angeles - Mike Davis Whose Culture? Whose City? -
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An Analysis of the Interaction Between Intelligent Software Agents and Human Users

TL;DR: It is argued that the nature of the feedback commonly used by learning agents to update their models and subsequent decisions could steer the behaviour of human users away from what benefits them, and in a direction that can undermine autonomy and cause further disparity between actions and goals as exemplified by addictive and compulsive behaviour.
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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.