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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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Fugitive Slave Advertisements and the Rebelliousness of Enslaved People in Georgia and Maryland, 1790-1810
TL;DR: In this article, a systematic investigation of fugitive slave advertisements aiming to understand the nature of fugitives' rebelliousness in Georgia and Maryland between 1790 and 1810 was conducted, which revealed that slaves were at their most dangerous when they could read and write or when they were skilled in deception.
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Knowledge Organization: A Sociohistorical Analysis and Critique.
Jack Andersen,Laura Skouvig +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the discipline of knowledge organization by harnessing the theories of Michel Foucault and Jurgen Habermas, and provide a sociohistorical analysis and critique of knowledge organisation in order to point out how the discipline understands itself and how it is a de facto human activity.
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Separate spaces: Discourse about the 2007 Scottish elections on a national newspaper Web site
TL;DR: The authors analyzes nearly 4,800 comments appended to stories on the scottman.com website, offering one of the first detailed looks at user-generated content on a newspaper-affiliated website in the context of a national election.
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Freeing the Press: : How Field Environment Explains Critical News Reporting in China
TL;DR: In this article, a comparative study of six newspaper organizations in the three coastal cities of Guangzhou, Beijing, and Shanghai demonstrates the significance of local field environment for critical news reporting, revealing how site-specific field environments can alternately enable or constrain collective resistance in an authoritarian context.
History of Warfare
TL;DR: The History of Warfare (HOW) series as discussed by the authors is a collection of monographs, collections of essays, conference proceedings, and translations of military texts from ancient times until the mid-20th century.