The Internet as a “Public Sphere”
By Jurgita Matačinskaitė. 2011
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This paper considers the theory of the Internet becoming part of the “public sphere”. The first part of the paper looks at how the concept of the public sphere was used by different scholars and how they defined the theory of the “public sphere”. The second part of the paper analyses how the theory about the public sphere defined by different scholars works on the practical level. Keywords: internet, network society, newspaper, public sphere, New York Times, virtuality, website.
Subfields: General Social Sciences
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/5667a45abdfb0e04b612de1ebbb4c7ce5da68bf4
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- A Bad Workman Blames His Tweets? The Consequences of Citizens’ Uncivil Twitter Use When Interacting with Party Candidates (2016, background): “This feature would not only allow the establishment of a public space in which which citizens can deliberate with their representatives, but also a deliberative space that enhances democracy (Papacharissi, 2002).”
- Re-constructing digital democracy: An outline of four ‘positions’ (2011, background): “See, for example, Ackerly (2006), Benson (1996), Coleman and Blumler (2009), Fang (1995), Friedland, et al. (2006), Gimmler (2001), Graham (2009), Janssen and Kies (2005), and Tanner (2001).”