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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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The Content of Political Participation: Letters to the Editor and the People Who Write Them

TL;DR: This paper conducted a content analysis of 1,415 randomly selected printed letters from eight newspapers from 2002 to 2005 and matched the letter writers from their sample to demographic and political information contained in a state voter file.

The City that Hides Itself: Movement and Meaning in Urban Form

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a list of figures and acknowledgements for their work in the field of computer graphics. But they do not discuss their work on video games, either.
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The Structural Transformation of The Democratic Corporatist Model: The Case of Finland

Juha Herkman
- 01 Jan 2009 - 
TL;DR: The structural transformation of the "Democratic Corporatist Model" defined by Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini in their /Comparing Media Systems/ (2004) is discussed in this article.
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Writing Rogues: Cheap Print Representations of Deviance in Early Modern London

Eleni Liapi
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on cheap pamphlets about rogues from 1590 to 1670, and explore the complexity of rogue pamphlets' interaction with the social world, their readers and perceptions about crime and morality.

Geopolitical Ecologies: Tracing the Shift From Citizen to User at Tempelhof and the Presidio

TL;DR: Owens et al. as discussed by the authors examined the post-cold war development of two new public parks at Tempelhof Airfield in Berlin, Germany, and the Presidio Army Base, in San Francisco, California.