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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
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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.read more
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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
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
W. Lance Bennett,Shanto Iyengar +1 more
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 Future of Communication History
TL;DR: The field of communication has always emphasized the future. It grew from a need to make sense out of the encounter with novel technologies and cultural forms in the United States from the late 19th to the early 20th century.
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Politics and Volunteering in Japan: A Global Perspective
TL;DR: In this article, a theory of volunteer participation and patterns of participation are discussed. But the authors focus on cross-national volunteer participation: testing the community voluntarism model and not where you would expect.
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Democratisation of the Public Sphere: The Beef Stall Case in Hyderabad's Sukoon Festival
TL;DR: The authors examines the saga of the demand for a beef stall by the Dalit students in Hyderabad Central University and argues that rejection of the culture of any community injures the human agency of that community.
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Permanent underground : radical sounds and social formations in 20th century American musicking
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Are public libraries developers of social capital? A review of their contribution and attempts to demonstrate it
TL;DR: The authors examines the idea that public libraries have a growing role as developers of social capital and brings to bear some of the growing body of research into public libraries and social capital, and concludes by examining research studies that throw light on the complex question of whether public libraries can and do generate social capital.