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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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Multi-level governance, policy implementation and participation: the EU's mandated participatory planning approach to implementing environmental policy
Jens Newig,Tomas M. Koontz +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a conceptualization of the EU's "mandated participatory planning" (MPP) approach, which is increasingly used to implement EU directives, mandating the explicit formulation of certain plans or programmes on mostly subnational or cross-national levels.
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Should We Worry About Filter Bubbles
Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius,Damian Trilling,Judith Moeller,Balázs Bodó,Claes H. de Vreese,Natali Helberger +5 more
TL;DR: The authors synthesise empirical research on the extent and effects of self-selected personalisation, where people actively choose which content they receive, and preselected personalization, where algorithms personalise content for users without any deliberate user choice, concluding that at present there is little empirical evidence that warrants any worries about filter bubbles.
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Political Parody and Public Culture
TL;DR: Parody and related forms of political humor are essential resources for sustaining democratic public culture as discussed by the authors, exposing the limits of public speech, transforming discursive demands into virtual images, setting those images before a carnivalesque audience, and celebrating social leveling while decentering all discourses within the "immense novel" of the public address system.
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Hacker practice: Moral genres and the cultural articulation of liberalism
Gabriella Coleman,Alex Golub +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a dichotomous representation of computer hackers as either unhealthy young men engaged in bold tournaments of sinister hacking or visionaries whose utopian technologica...
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Talking Politics and Engaging Politics: An Examination of the Interactive Relationships Between Structural Features of Political Talk and Discussion Engagement
TL;DR: Whether network size and heterogeneity mobilize or demobilize citizens may depend on whether they are attentively and frequently discussing political issues with others, as well as three most researched structural features of political discussion—network size, discussion frequency, and network heterogeneity.