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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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To tell the truth: on scientific counterpublics
TL;DR: Research in the public understanding of science for and against the public deficit model often is based on assumptions of individualism and lay knowledge as mentioned in this paper, and that approach to the public is contrasted with the approach to science for the public.
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Channeling Hearts and Minds: Advocacy Organizations, Cognitive-Emotional Currents, and Public Conversation:
TL;DR: The authors argue that rational and emotional styles of communicati cation can stimulate public conversation about social problems by engaging in rational debate, or by appealing to emotions, and argue that emotional and rational styles of communication are complementary.
Dissertation
Print and politics in the East Midlands constituencies c.1790-1832
TL;DR: In this paper, a broad range of printed and manuscript evidence including political ephemera, local newspapers, election receipts, and correspondences from borough and county elections, highlighting the level of work which went into orchestrating a canvass in the unreformed era, especially by candidates, their political agents, and printers.
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The Re-Imagined Text: Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory
TL;DR: The Re-Imagined Text as mentioned in this paper examines both the adaptations and the network of literary theory surrounding them, thereby exploring the problems of textual sanctity and of the author's relationship to the text.
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The Cultural Politics of Sugar: Caribbean Slavery and Narratives of Colonialism
TL;DR: In this article, Ligon, Grainger, Schaw and Schaw describe a "saccharocracy" of virtue, which is based on the "Sweete negotiation" and the "Rochefort negotiation".