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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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Dialogue, Activism, and Democratic Social Change
Shiv Ganesh,Heather M. Zoller +1 more
TL;DR: A systematic description of various positions on dialogue and their implications for understanding activism and social change can be found in this paper, where the authors argue for a multivocal, agonistic perspective on dialogue that centers issues of power and conflict in activism.
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Creating community with media : history, theories and scientific investigations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace the relationship between (new) media and community and explore the possibility of regenerating communities through mediated forms of communication, such as radio and television.
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The Ethical Complex of Corporate Food Power
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how nongovernmental organizations and the popular media in Britain have been able to pressure Britain's top supermarkets to undertake "ethical" reforms of their globa...
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Religion and/as Media
TL;DR: In the current intellectual climate, it seems almost impossible to invoke the words "religion" and "media" without bringing to mind the events of "holy terror" on 11 September 2001, and the spectacular image of the collapsed World Trade Center as a fallen idol of global capitalism as discussed by the authors.
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Digital Material : Tracing New Media in Everyday Life and Technology
Marianne van den Boomen,Sybille Lammes,Ann-Sophie Lehmann,Joost Raessens,Mirko Tobias Schäfer +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, the contributors to the present book, all employed in teaching and researching new media and digital culture, assembled their "digital material" into an anthology, covering issues ranging from desktop metaphors to Web 2.0 ecosystems, from touch screens to blogging and e-learning, from roleplaying games and cybergothic music to wireless dreams.