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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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Spiritualising Marginality: Sufi Concepts and the Politics of Identity in Pakistan:
TL;DR: In Pakistan, hijras define themselves as a distinctive gender that is neither men nor women as mentioned in this paper, and explore hijra identity in Pakistan by focusing on the hijra gender identity.
Dissertation
The slashdot effect : analysis of a large-scale public conversation on the World Wide Web
What Does Closing Civic Space Mean for Development? A Literature Review and Proposed Conceptual Framework
Naomi Hossain,Nalini Khurana,Shandana Khan Mohmand,Sohela Nazneen,Marjoke Oosterom,Tony Roberts,Ricardo Santos,Alex Shankland,Patrick Schröder +8 more
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Homo spectator : Public space in the age of the spectacle
TL;DR: In this article, a novel approach to the relationship between public space and democracy is developed, which employs the concept of the spectacle to show how public space can serve to destroy or weaken solidarity just as easily as it can foster a democratic ethos of equality.