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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society

John Durham Peters
- 01 Jan 1991 - 
- Vol. 72, Iss: 2
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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.

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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

danah boyd
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

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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Mapping Mass Mobilization : Understanding Revolutionary Moments in Argentina and Ukraine

Olga Onuch
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a framework for comparative analysis of moments and movements in mass mobilizations, including the 2014 EuroMaidan Mass Mobilization in Ukraine and Eastern Europe.
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Rethinking the Anthropology of Corruption: An Introduction to Supplement 18

Sarah Muir, +1 more
- 08 Mar 2018 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors take stock of where the anthropological literature on corruption has come and where it might go next, and their goal is neither to provide an exhaustive lite lite...
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Birds of a feather flock together? Party leaders on Twitter during the 2013 Norwegian elections

TL;DR: The advent of social media has spurred democratic optimism and was seen as something that help political public relations establish and maintain good relationships with key publics as discussed by the authors. But, researc...
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Public Deliberation goes On-line?

Kim Strandberg
- 01 Jan 2008 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how many, and more importantly, which types of citizens participate in on-line political discussion boards and assessed the quality of the discussions in light of several criteria based on the literature concerning deliberative democracy.
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A Comparative Analysis of Political Communication Systems and Voter Turnout

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that institutional settings that reduce information costs for voters will increase voter turnout, and demonstrate that broadcasting systems and advertising systems are associated with higher levels of voter turnout.