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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
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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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Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
TL;DR: Tufekci as mentioned in this paper describes how the internet helped the Zapatista uprisings in Mexico, the necessity of remote Twitter users to organize medical supplies during Arab Spring, the refusal to use bullhorns in the Occupy Movement that started in New York, and the empowering effect of tear gas in Istanbuls Gezi Park.
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Gender Inequality in Deliberative Participation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors move beyond the debate by hypothesizing that the group's gender composition interacts with its decision rule to exacerbate or erase the inequalities, and find a substantial gender gap in voice and authority, but as hypothesized, it disappears under unanimous rule and few women.
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All Lives Matter, but so Does Race: Black Lives Matter and the Evolving Role of Social Media
TL;DR: This paper examined the ways in which youth of color played an active role in debates that erupted on Twitter following the tragic deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner in 2014, showing that these debates on social media represent a larger struggle over discourse on race and racism across the nation.
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Engineering the public: Big data, surveillance and computational politics
TL;DR: This work examines six intertwined dynamics that pertain to the rise of computational politics: the Rise of big data, the shift away from demographics to individualized targeting, the opacity and power of computational modeling, the use of persuasive behavioral science, digital media enabling dynamic real-time experimentation, and the growth of new power brokers who own the data or social media environments.
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We Are Dynamo: Overcoming Stalling and Friction in Collective Action for Crowd Workers
Niloufar Salehi,Lilly Irani,Michael S. Bernstein,Ali Alkhatib,Eva Ogbe,Kristy Milland,Clickhappier +6 more
TL;DR: Dynamo, a platform to support the Mechanical Turk community in forming publics around issues and then mobilizing, finds that collective action publics tread a precariously narrow path between the twin perils of stalling and friction, balancing with each step between losing momentum and flaring into acrimony.