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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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Predicting Political Discussion in a Censored Virtual Environment
Yi Mou,David Atkin,Hanlong Fu +2 more
TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors argue that Chinese netizens' online participatory behaviors are determined by their political attitudes, trust in the media, and, chiefly, trust of the social system.
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Historical Models of Music Listening and Theories of Audition. Towards an Understanding of Music Listening Outside the Aesthetic Framework
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the historical development of the notion of "cultural construction of the senses" which has been predominant among sensory scholars; they trace the emergence of the anthropological approach influenced by phenomenology and the anthropology of the body.
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Citizenship: Care of the Self, Character and Personality
Melanie White,Alan Hunt +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that an historical shift occurred between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from a subjectivity rooted in 'character' to one based on 'personality' that corresponded to changes in the prevailing form.
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When We Stop Talking Politics: The Maintenance and Closing of Conversation in Contentious Times
Chris Wells,Katherine J. Cramer,Michael W. Wagner,German Alvarez,Lewis A. Friedland,Dhavan V. Shah,Leticia Bode,Stephanie Edgerly,Itay Gabay,Charles Franklin +9 more
TL;DR: This paper examined political talk during an archetypal case of political contentiousness: the recall of Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin in 2012 and found that a fracturing of civic culture took place in which many citizens found it impossible to continue political discussion.