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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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The Social Qualities of Being on Foot: A Theoretical Analysis of Pedestrian Activity, Community, and Culture
Loren Demerath,David Levinger +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical framework for explaining how pedestrian activity broadens people's access to cultural meaning making processes is presented, showing that a lack of vital pedestrian activity constitutes a...
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Affective borders : the emotional politics of the German 'refugee crisis'
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptualisation and analysis of affective borders that brings together feminist, queer and post-colonial theories of affect with critical border and migration studies is presented, focusing on the mobilisation of three different affects in key scenes of the border spectacle that unfolded during the long summer of migration (the time period from early summer 2015 to the beginning of 2016).
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Striking with social media: The contested (online) terrain of workplace conflict.
Martin Upchurch,Rickard Grassman +1 more
TL;DR: This article reviewed the workplace battleground and explored the potential of social media for mobilizing social movements in labour conflicts and beyond, by conducting a case study with empirically proven results from labor conflicts.