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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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Dance and the Political: States of Exception

Mark Franko
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare Ausdruckstanz literature to work in other fields on the theorization of fascist aesthetics, and establish a critical framework for the vexed question of the fascistization of German modern dance.
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Ordinary security : an ethnography of security practices and perspectives in Tel Aviv

TL;DR: The authors explored ordinary security perspectives and practices among Jewish-Israelis in Tel Aviv and argued that security practices that are often invoked as a precaution against danger and a provider of protection may paradoxically produce a sense of even more danger, uncertainty and insecurity.
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Gender and Public Talk: Accounting for Women’s Variable Participation in the Public Sphere

TL;DR: A theory of the gendered character of public talk as a way to account for women's variable participation in the settings that make up the public sphere has been developed by as discussed by the authors.

Music for the International Masses: American Foreign Policy, The Recording Industry, and Punk Rock in the Cold War

Mindy Clegg
TL;DR: This paper explored the connections between US foreign policy initiatives, the global expansion of the American recording industry, and the rise of punk in the 1970s and 1980s and found that the material support of the US government contributed to the globalization of the recording industry and functioned as a facet American style consumerism.
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Revising Pandora's Gifts: Religious and National Identity in the Post-Soviet Societal Fabric

TL;DR: This article explored the validity of these assumptions as applied to the multifaceted cauldron of religious identities in post-communist societies, particularly in the former Soviet Union, and tried to replace these value judgements with a more balanced vision of the religious processes in this area.