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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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Three dimensions of the public sphere on Facebook
TL;DR: In this paper, an empirical analysis of the online public sphere in the three dimensions introduced by Dahlgren (2005): structural, representational and interactional, was performed on the largest social networking site and Polish users' activity on the Facebook Pages of political parties and politicians.
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Blog Searching: The First General-Purpose Source of Retrospective Public Opinion in the Social Sciences?
TL;DR: A time series analysis of related blog postings suggests that the Danish cartoons issue attracted little attention in the English‐speaking world for four months after the initial publication, exploding only after the simultaneous start of diplomatic sanctions and a commercial boycott.
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Pathways to God: The Islamic Acoustics of Turkish Berlin
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the nature of sound in Islamic practice: How does Islam sound? In what ways does sound articulate and generate difference both between Muslims and non-Muslims, but also among different Muslim communities? How can an acoustics of Islam help elucidate the workings of a metropolis like Berlin, and vice-versa?
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Design Lessons from Creating a Mobile-based Community Media Platform in Rural India
TL;DR: An interactive voice-based community media platform in rural India that works through mobile phones is described, and how several non-technological innovations in content management, community mobilization, and social impact processes were brought about to make the program an effective social development intervention.
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Stable jobs, precarious lives : rural public servants in Ethiopia
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the functioning of the Ethiopian state through the lives of rural public servants in a peripheral area of Amhara Region, and provided an account of the lowest level of the state through close attention to the everyday social worlds and professional responsibilities of teachers, extension workers and administrators.