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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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Borderless Publics: Scandinavian participation in the 2016 American election via Twitter
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What it means to be modern: a messy history of mass-media revivals in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1875-1920
TL;DR: This paper argued that Protestant evangelical revivals were sites on which "modernity" was made, defined, contested, and remade at the end of the nineteenth century, and examined the major revivals of Dwight Moody and Billy Sunday, among others.
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The Politics of Nationalism in Cambodia's Preah Vihear Conflict with Thailand: The State, the City and the Border
Diaspora organisations, transnational practices and development: Ghanaians in the Netherlands
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a qualitative methodological approach and a multi-sited ethnographic lens to enhance an in-depth examination of the historic, political, socioeconomic context and the social relationships influencing diaspora transnational collective activities at the local and national levels both in the country of residence and origin.
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One Social Movement, Two Social Media Sites: A Comparative Study of Public Discourses
TL;DR: This study analyzed public discourses about Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement on two distinct social media sites, Facebook and Weibo, to trace the links between different discourses and the socio-cultural-political conditions of Hong Kong and mainland China.