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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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Property, Power and Press Freedom: Emergence of the Fourth Estate, 1640–1789

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ a theoretical framework that combines political economy and cultural studies to uncover the forces driving the development of press freedom in early modern England, the British North America and France from the launch in 1640 of the English Short Parliament, which temporarily abolished censorship, to the French Revolution in 1789.

The Emergence, Development and Influence of French Haute Cuisine on Public Dining in Dublin Restaurants 1900-2000: an Oral History

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a glossary of terms and a table of terms used in this work. But they do not discuss the authorship of terms in this glossary.

"The Property of the Nation": Democracy and the Memory of George Washington, 1799-1865

TL;DR: Costello et al. as mentioned in this paper explored how Americans personally experienced George Washington's legacy in the nineteenth century through visits to his estate and tomb at Mount Vernon and found that African slaves, free blacks, and European gardeners greeted these visitors as the first historical interpreters of Washington history.
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Benefits and Drawbacks of Anonymous Online Communication: Legal Challenges and Communicative Recommendations

TL;DR: In the ongoing aftermath from the events of September 11, 2001, there exists a climate of suspicion and heightened security that seems increasingly interested in establishing identity, and judicial and organizational officials are increasingly likely to take actions limiting one’s privacy and to provide identifying information in the name of national security—all of which erodes anonymity.

Another Europe is Possible: Critical Perspectives on European Union Politics

Ian James, +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, critical perspectives on the study of the European Union have blossomed in ways unimaginable from within the intellectual straitjacket of traditional political science during the Cold War era, and the multitude of vistas provided by scholars working on European Union politics across the social sciences can only provide a limited view of this vast wealth of critical perspectives.
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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.