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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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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.
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The heritage of Brexit: Roles of the past in the construction of political identities through social media

TL;DR: The authors assesses the role of the pre-modern past in the construction of political identities relating to the UK's membership in the European Union, by examining how materials and ideas from Iron Age to Early Medieval Britain and Europe were leveraged by those who discussed the topic of Brexit in over 1.4 million messages published in dedicated Facebook pages.

Every Man His Own Monument : Self-Monumentalizing in Romantic Britain

TL;DR: From framing private homes as museums, to sitting for life masks and appointing biographers, new forms of self-monumentalizing emerged in the early nineteenth century as mentioned in this paper, and they are still in use today.
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Public journalism as a journalism of publics: Implications of the Habermas–Fraser debate for public journalism

TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the gap between academic scholarship on the public sphere and journalistic work in public sphere by demonstrating how Fraser's (1990) four-part critique of Haberm...
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How Feeling Free to Talk Affects Ordinary Political Conversation, Purposeful Argumentation, and Civic Participation:

TL;DR: This paper examined how perceived freedom to talk in general is related to congenial political conversation in ordinary spaces or willingness to argue with an opponent, or how each mode of talk affects civic participation.
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Drinking up endings: conversational resources of the cafe

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the importance of gesture and materials in closing sequences in one of the many conversations we have face-to-face, and analyse an illustrated transcript of two co-workers closing their conversation, and staying, in cafe to flesh out the argument over the resource that drinking provides for talking together.