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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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TL;DR: The authors argue that corporate public relations has been more frequently used to gain a competitive advantage over rivals and has been primarily targeted at other corporate elites, and that a more general corporate advantage has been gained as much by exclusion as persuasion of the general public.
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Provincial modernity : Manchester and Lille in transnational perspective, 1860-1914

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the ways middle classes in two provincial cities imagined the relationship between the city and the rest of the world, and how they made sense of local identity in the light of economic, geopolitical and cultural globalisation.
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Practice Theory: Viewing leadership as leading

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how practices of leading relate to other educational practices: professional learning, teaching, student learning, and researching and reflecting, and find that changing leading practices requires changing more than the professional practice knowledge of individuals; it also requires changing the practice architectures (cultural-discursive, material-economic and social-political arrangements) in sites where leading and its interconnected practices are conducted.
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A tale of two blogospheres: discursive practices on the left and right

TL;DR: The authors compared the practices of discursive production among top U.S. political blogs on the left and right during summer 2008 and found evidence of an association between ideological affiliation and technologies, institutions, and practices of participation.