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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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On the Aesthetics and Dialogics of Power in the Postcolony
TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative Bakhtinian approach to Mbembe's problematic through an analysis of the public staging of political relations in Buganda (Uganda) is presented.
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The Public Eye and the Citizen-Voyeur: Photography as a Performance of Power
TL;DR: The authors argue that photography is best grasped not as a medium of visual communication, but as a manifest performance of the power to make visible, and explore the ways in which photographic performance at the public/private boundary dramatizes power relations through forms of social transparency, voyeurism and memoralization.
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Shaping Public Discourses of Nature: Biological Mutation in the American Press, 1820-1945
TL;DR: This article explored the historical development of public attitudes to the possibility of modifying hereditary traits of living organisms and argued that the discourses employed by the media and social movements campaigning against genetic engineering in the 1990s relied on essentialist assumptions about the natural environment which had circulated in the American press centuries before the emergence of rDNA technologies.
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Daring the Truth: Foucault, Parrhesia and the Genealogy of Critique:
TL;DR: In a series of inquiries, Foucault traced the origins and trajectories of critical practices from the ancient tradition of parrhesia to the enlightenment and the (neo)liberal critique of the state.
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The political economy of gender in the twentieth-century Caribbean
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