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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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Constructing Imperial Spaces: Habsburg Cartography in the Age of Enlightenment

TL;DR: In the second half of the eighteenth century, military engineers working for the Austrian Habsburg monarchs mapped in detail for the first time the provinces and borders of their empire.
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Rickety Bridges: Using the Media in Deliberative Democracy

TL;DR: This paper examined the effects of the media on the kinds of information transferred from deliberators to audience in a deliberative poll that took place in the United Kingdom in July 1998, and concluded that the media is not broad pipes which simply convey whatever is put into them but can shape that input in sometimes significant ways.
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The Edinburgh companion to Virginia Woolf and the arts

Maggie Humm
TL;DR: The most cited editions of Virginia Woolf and Abbreviations List of Figures List of Plates as discussed by the authors are the following: 1) Aesthetics 1.1.2.
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The Concept of ‘the Public’ and the Aims of Public Archaeology

Akira Matsuda
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the concept of "the public" as used in public archaeology, and by doing so, consider the aims of public archeology and their specific application to a Roman villa in Somma Vesuviana, Italy.
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Advocacy Organizations’ Evaluation of Social Media Information for NGO Journalism The Evidence and Engagement Models

TL;DR: In this paper, the author's accepted manuscript has been published by Sage in American Behavioral Scientist here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764214540508.