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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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Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism
TL;DR: Beneke as discussed by the authors describes how early Americans learned to live with differences in matters of the highest importance to them, and found a way to articulate these differences without offensive. But no one has explained how early American learned to accommodate the religious differences that had produced so much bloodshed in the past.
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Geopolitical Relations in the European Middle Ages: History and Theory
TL;DR: The European Middle Ages have recently attracted the attention of international relations (IR) scholars as a “testing ground” for established IR theories as discussed by the authors, and a meta-theoretically guided interpretation of medieval geopolitics revolving around contested social property relations.
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The Strategic Education Research Program and the Public Value of Research
TL;DR: This article presented educational, political, and technological arguments for making the knowledge at issue more widely available and accessible, with an eye to increasing educational research's contribution to the quality of public reason and deliberative democracy.
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Social Media as a Public Sphere? Politics on Social Media
TL;DR: This article found that respondents do not engage in communicative action typical of the public sphere because they avoid political discourse online, and three factors influence this: fear of online harassment and workplace surveillance; engagement only with politically similar others; and characterization of social media as a place for “happy” interactions.
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Politics, Speech, and the Art of Persuasion: Toward an Aristotelian Conception of the Public Sphere
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a reconstruction of Aristotle's arguments concerning the content of persuasive public speech and its role in political deliberation, and discuss areas of agreement and disagreement between Aristotle and the two most influential representatives of rational/deliberative and agonistic models of the public sphere.