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Out or In? The Black Blogosphere and the News Media
Alternatives to the dominant public sphere and associated dialogue are especially important for underrepresented groups. These alternatives allow for groups to create their own dialogues that can then be used to change the direction of the larger ...
Cara Robinson, Nia Cantey
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At this moment in New Zealand’s history there is a need for healthy political debate on a range of issues. Specifically, the foreshore and seabed issue has created division and fears between Māori and Pakeha and brought the Treaty of Waitangi to the fore
Ian Stuart
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When analyzing patient-reported outcome (PRO) data, sources of differential item functioning (DIF) can be multiple and there may be more than one covariate of interest. Hence, it could be of great interest to disentangle their effects.
Yseulys Dubuy +6 more
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New Media and the Public Sphere: Perspectives of Communication Academics
Nowadays, new media as a public sphere is at the center of an individuals’ communication and has become a highly disputed territory. Contrary to Habermas’ public sphere, which is egalitarian, inclusive, non-hierarchical, and open-centered, new social ...
Onur Dursun, Filiz Yıldız
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The concept of the public sphere is a central analytical tool that helps us to make sense of the relationship between the media and democracy (civic engagement). Political theorist Habermas explained that in the late eighteenth century a new political class (the bourgeoisie) came to the fore in Britain in particular and formed a public body which, in ...
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The Structure of Local Groundwater Law for Sustainable Groundwater Policy in Japan
Groundwater is extremely important to all societies. It provides in many places a reliable and ample supply of water for home use, irrigation, and industry. Japanese groundwater policy consists of complex laws and rules.
Sayaka K. Hori
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Referendum Campaigns in the Digital Age: Towards (More) Comparative Analyses in Hybrid Media Systems
Referendum campaigns, which happen in many countries on the national or sub-national level, are highly important and special periods of political communication. Unlike elections, however, referendum campaigns are understudied phenomena.
Linards Udris, Mark Eisenegger
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Public Sphere as Democratic Sphere
Political public space is more conflicted and stressed. Process of black-balling other actors is dominant here. Other civilian public spaces mean mutual learning and opinion improvement. These two spaces try to affect each other. Civilian public spaces try to affect political public space with political discourses.
Ziba Faeedfar, Yasin Lotfata
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Despite broad scientific support, vaccination is traditionally a contested issue among the public. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the issue of vaccination received widespread attention in news media and on social media.
Dario Siegen, Daniel Vogler
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A Kantian Conception of Free Speech [PDF]
In this paper I provide an interpretation of Kant’s conception of free speech. Free speech is understood as the kind of speech that is constitutive of interaction respectful of everybody’s right to freedom, and it requires what we with John Rawls may ...
Varden, Helga
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