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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
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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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Crisis in the IS field? A critical reflection on the state of the discipline
Rudy Hirschheim,Heinz K. Klein +1 more
TL;DR: If IS as a field can overcome its internal communications deficits, it might ultimately contribute to the societal challenge of developing a deliberative cyber democracy and thereby help to address the social communication deficit which is a feature of modern mass societies.
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Does Disagreement Contribute to More Deliberative Opinion
TL;DR: This article examined whether disagreement in political conversation contributes to opinion quality, specifically, whether it expands one's understanding of others' perspectives, and found that exposure to disagreement does indeed contribute to people's ability to generate reasons, and in particular reasons why others might disagree with the opinions expressed by the speaker.
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Mobile Transformations of 'Public' and 'Private' Life.
Mimi Sheller,John Urry +1 more
TL;DR: The distinction of public and private life is often conceived of as statically'regional' in character as mentioned in this paper, and it is argued that massive changes are occurring in the nature of both private and public life and especially of the relations between them.
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Public Participation as Public Debate: A Deliberative Turn in Natural Resource Management
John R. Parkins,Ross E. Mitchell +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the similarities and differences between the natural resource management literature and deliberative democratic theory, and argued that a democratic perspective on public participation may serve to challenge some established traditions within natural resource literature and lead to new ways of conducting and evaluating public participation.
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The New Urban Sociology
Mark Gottdiener,Ray Hutchison +1 more
TL;DR: The origins of urbanization and the characteristics of cities urbanization in the United States the metropolitan period in United States -1920 to 1960 the restructuring of settlement space - 1960 to 1990 the rise of urban sociology contemporary urban sociology - the socio-spatial perspective people, lifestyles and the metropolis neighbourhoods, the public environment and theories of urban life metropolitan problems - poverty, racism, crime, housing and fiscal crisis local politics - city and suburban governments third world urbanization urbanization.