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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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Civil Society in Europe and Africa: Limiting State Power through a Public Sphere*
TL;DR: The concept of civil society is used in a variety of different ways, but usually refers to the emergence of new patterns of political participation outside of formal state structures and one-party systems.
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“I'm Doing this to Change the World”: journalism in alternative and mainstream media
TL;DR: This article examined the extent of crossover of both practice and personnel between journalism conducted in alternative and mainstream media and provided some empirical evidence to support the contention that there can be movement along what might be termed a continuum of journalistic practice.
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Open co-ordination as advanced liberal government 1
TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply a Foucauldian analysis of government to recent developments in the European Union (EU), focusing particularly on open methods of co-ordination (OMCs) in the EU.
There's Power in the Blood : Religion, White Supremacy, and the Politics of Darwinism in America
TL;DR: Bolar and Allen as discussed by the authors argue that evolutionary biology has proven contentious in America because of the unique political context into which Darwin's ideas emerged, and argue that evolution's content, and the predominately Northern scientists who supported it, became associated with the politics of radical Republicanism and racial egalitarianism.
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Knowledge, Uncertainty and the Transformation of the Public Sphere
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the ability of knowledge-related social cooperation to cope with the challenge of radical uncertainty is doubtful, and that the late modern public sphere does not provide favorable conditions for this endeavour.