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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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Critical Notes on Habermas's Theory of the Public Sphere
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine Habermas's account of the transformation of the public sphere in modern society, and demonstrate that, whilst Habe rmas's approach succeeds in offering useful insights into the structural transformation of public spheres in the early modern period, it does not provide an adequate theoretical framework for understanding the structural transformations in late modern societies.
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Crime, media and the will-to-representation: Reconsidering relationships in the new media age
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the ways in which the rise of new media might challenge commonplace criminological assumptions about the crime-media interface and propose a causal inducement to law-and rule-breaking behaviour.
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Deliberation 2.0: Comparing the Deliberative Quality of Online News User Comments Across Platforms
TL;DR: A content analysis of user comments left by readers of the Washington Post suggests that when it comes to discussing political news, there are significant differences in the deliberative quality of those who access the news directly through the news organization's Web site and those who Access the news via Facebook.
Media studies' fascination with the concept of the public sphere: critical reflections and emerging debates Article (Submitted version) (Pre-refereed)
Peter Lunt,Sonia Livingstone +1 more
TL;DR: In the last decade, interest in the public sphere has expanded hugely, with 247 articles in Media, Culture & Society (and many more in other journals), covering a diversity of themes and greatly stimulated by the advances of globalisation and mass internet use as mentioned in this paper.
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Participation and publics: supporting community engagement
TL;DR: This paper builds on findings from a previous system deployment by describing targeted changes made to the technology, the design impetus for making those changes, and the resulting impact those changes had on the relationship between shelter staff, residents and the information they shared via the system.