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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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The SAGE Handbook of Nations and Nationalism
Gerard Delanty,Krishna Kumar +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a collection of books that bring together the best of this intellectual diversity into one collection, focusing on nationalism in political, social and cultural theory.
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Socially Mediated Publicness: An Introduction
Nancy K. Baym,danah boyd +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider how technology reconfigures publicness, blurs audiences and publics, and alters what it means to engage in pub-side pub-life.
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Disclosing new worlds: a role for social and environmental accounting and auditing
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that modern social and environmental accounting models have been developed based on procedural liberal frameworks that limit the proposals for reform and that the corporation as the accounting entity and mistakenly claims to be able to influence it.
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Rethinking the fragmentation of the cyberpublic: from consensus to contestation
TL;DR: The deliberative public sphere must be rethought to account more fully for the asymmetries of power, the inter-subjective basis of meaning, the centrality of respect for difference in democracy, and the democratic role of `like-minded' deliberative groups.
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Re-constructing digital democracy: An outline of four ‘positions’:
TL;DR: The aim is to draw attention to different understandings of what extending democracy through digital media means, and to provide a framework for further examination and evaluation of digital democracy rhetoric and practice.