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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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Laudable, ahistorical and overambitious: security sector reform meets state formation theory.
Robert Egnell,Peter Haldén +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, security sector reform (SSR) is a concept that is highly visible within policy and practice circles and that increasingly shapes international programs for development assistance, security co-ope...
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Morality, Law, and the Socialist Sexual Self in the German Democratic Republic, 1945-1972.
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Millions of online book co-purchases reveal partisan differences in the consumption of science
TL;DR: This paper found that the political left and right share an interest in science in general, but not science in particular, revealing partisan preferences both within and across scientific disciplines, and concluded that selective exposure may limit cross-partisan understanding.
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Reporting Conventions: Journalists, Activists, and the Thorny Struggle for Political Visibility
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw upon 134 in-depth interviews with activists and journalists in an effort to reconcile the extensive activism taking place in the shadows of presidential campaigns with its near invisibility in the news, and show how they work together to create nearly insurmountable cultural boundaries for political outsiders.
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The Internet as a “Public Sphere”
TL;DR: In this article, the theory of the Internet becoming part of the public sphere is considered and how the theory about the public spheres defined by different scholars works on the practical level, and the first part of this paper analyzes how the concept of public sphere was used by different researchers and how they defined the theory.