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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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Echo chambers and viral misinformation: Modeling fake news as complex contagion.
TL;DR: A network simulation model used to study a possible relationship between echo chambers and the viral spread of misinformation finds an “echo chamber effect”: the presence of an opinion and network polarized cluster of nodes in a network contributes to the diffusion of complex contagions.
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The invisible politics of Bitcoin: governance crisis of a decentralised infrastructure
TL;DR: The political economy of Bitcoin is examined, in light of a recent dispute that divided the Bitcoin community with regard to a seemingly simple technical issue: whether or not to increase the block size of the Bitcoin blockchain.
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A Critique of the Discourse of Marketized Philanthropy
TL;DR: The authors argue that the transformative potential of philanthropy, its potential to represent the need for and bring about social change, is increasingly lost in the current market-based discourse of altruism that includes consumption of products and consumption of media and celebrities as the basis for benevolent human relations.
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Making sense of the newspaper crisis: A critical assessment of existing research and an agenda for future work
TL;DR: An agenda for future work is outlined that fosters an analysis of the process, history, comparative development, and manifold implications of this crisis, and advances various empirical strategies to examine some of its most under-theorized dimensions.