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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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Exploring a theoretical model of climate change action for youth
TL;DR: This paper explored the influence of cognitive and psychosocial variables on youth's climate change-related behavior, with the aim of creating a better understanding of the effects of climate change on them.
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Beyond an instrumental approach to religion and development : Challenges for church-based healthcare in Tanzania
TL;DR: In this article, the role of religion in the development process is discussed and the authors make a contribution to the larger ongoing debate on the role role of faith in development in an effort to move beyond an instrumental approach.
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Expanding the Internet Commons: The Subversive Potential of Wireless Community Networks
TL;DR: In this article, a short history of telecom policy, pointing to the prejudicial consequences of centralization from a political perspective, as incumbent ISPs turn into network gatekeepers, fostering their commercial interests by exerting greater control over users' communications.
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Shining a Light on the Mysteries of State: The Origins of Fiscal Transparency in Western Europe
TL;DR: The extent of fiscal transparency in Western Europe has varied over the centuries as mentioned in this paper, and although ancient Greek, Roman, and medieval governments were sometimes open about their finances, the absolute monarchies of the 1600s and 1700s shrouded them in mystery.
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Speaking Truth to Power: Twitter Reactions to the Panama Papers
TL;DR: The authors examined the micro-linguistic details of Twitter responses to the whistleblower-initiated publication of the Panama Papers and found that the responses were polyvocal, consisting a collection of overlapping speech genres with varied thematic topics and linguistic styles, as well as differing degrees of calls for action and varying amounts of illocutionary force.