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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society

John Durham Peters
- 01 Jan 1991 - 
- Vol. 72, Iss: 2
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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.

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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

danah boyd
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

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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Rituals of rule in the administered community: the Javanese slametan reconsidered

TL;DR: In this article, the continued restatement of the relevance of community through the Javanese ritual meal known as the slametan and women's roles in these commensality are the focus of this consideration.
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The Circulation of Chisme and Rumor: Gossip, Evidentiality, and Authority in the Perspective of Latino Labor Migrants in Israel

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider non-Jewish, Latino labor migrants in Israel, whose usage of chisme (gossip) versus rumor (rumor) maps to in-group and out-group sources.
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Democracy, voice and dialogic pedagogy: the struggle to be heard and heeded

TL;DR: In this article, an episode of sustained student engagement with, and argumentation about, a controversial social issue in an Israeli primary school classroom was examined, where students and their teacher engaged in heated, multivocal deliberation.

Webs of Resistance: The Citizen Online Journalism of the Nigerian Digital Diaspora

TL;DR: In this article, the authors chronicle the emergence and flowering of the citizen and alternative online journalism of the Nigerian diasporic public sphere located primarily in the United States using case-study research, and highlight instances where these geographically distant citizen media sites shaped and influenced both the national politics and policies of the homeland and the media practices of the domestic media formation.

PUBLIC SPACES OF POST-INDUSTRIAL CITIES AND THEIR CHANgINg ROLES (1)

TL;DR: Boyer et al. as discussed by the authors pointed out that despite their evident importance in cities, public spaces have become subject to broad concern for more than two decades (francis, 1987; carr et al., 1992; tibbalds, 1992; boyer, 1993, crilley, 1993; Hubbard, 1995; Madanipour, 2000; Mcinroy, 2000).