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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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Digital libraries with embedded values: Combining insights from LIS and science and technology studies
TL;DR: The boundary objects with agency framework is applied to digital libraries as a possible way to address the need for comparative empirical research about what values are embedded in digital libraries, how these values areembedded indigital libraries, and the implications of these embedded values.
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Does Heterogeneity Hinder Democracy
Wolfgang Merkel,Brigitte Weiffen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a sound conceptualization of the phenomenon of heterogeneity is proposed and the effect of various dimensions of heterogeneity on the political trajectory of states since the beginning of the third wave of democratization is analyzed.
Negotiating urban conflict: Conflicts as opportunity for urban democracy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that episodes of urban conflict can serve as a lens into the challenges that society presents to citizens and to those responsible for governance, and they reveal if, when, how, and where episodes can be understood as moments of opportunity for "negotiated democracy".
Calculated values: The politics and epistemology of economic numbers in Britain, 1688-1738
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a Table of Table 1.iii Table 2.1] and Table 3.2.3] of the authors' abstracts, respectively.
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Feminism and the political economy of transnational public space
TL;DR: The structural transformation of the public sphere has been studied in the context of transnational public spaces as discussed by the authors, where a globalizing capitalist economy is restructuring the public space and reshaping its modes of exclusion.