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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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Corporations and Citizenship Arenas in the Age of Social Media

TL;DR: In this article, the importance of social media in the corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature has been highlighted through utilizing the notion of "citizenship arenas" to identify three dynamics in social media-augmented corporate-society relations.
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Civil Society and the State

TL;DR: The distinction between civil society and the economy has been extensively discussed in the literature as discussed by the authors, where it is generally agreed that civil society refers to uncoerced associational life distinct from the family and institutions of the state.
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The Bureaucracy of Beauty: Design in the Age of its Global Reproducibility

Arindam Dutta
TL;DR: The Bureaucracy of Beauty as discussed by the authors is a wide-ranging work of cultural theory that connects literary studies, postcoloniality, the history of architecture and design, and the history and present of empire.
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Power and politics in old regime France 1720-1745

TL;DR: The first research book on French politics 1720-1745 in English or French, based upon a very large documentary basis, is as mentioned in this paper, which reconstructs the period's politics in a detailed way almost entirely upon a documentary basis and is widely used by authors of books on eightenth-century France.

The solidarity of self-interest: Social and cultural feasibility of rural health insurance in Ghana

TL;DR: This dissertation aims to provide a history of web exceptionalism from 1989 to 2002, a period chosen in order to explore its roots as well as specific cases up to and including the year in which descriptions of “Web 2.0” began to circulate.