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A Theory of the Public Sphere

Sociological Theory, 2012
The dominant approach to the public sphere is characterized by idealism and normativism. It overemphasizes civic-minded or civil discourse, envisions unrealistically egalitarian and widespread participation, has difficulty dealing with consequential public events, and neglects the spatial core of the public sphere and the effects of visibility.
Ari Adut
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“Sighting” the public: iconoclasm and public sphere theory

Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2004
This essay considers the ways that iconoclasm, or the will to control images and vision, appears in canonical and contemporary public sphere theory. John Dewey and Jurgen Habermas enact a paradoxical relation to visuality by repudiating a mass culture of images while preferring “good” images and vision.
Cara A. Finnegan, Jiyeon Kang
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Trending theory of the public sphere

Annals of the International Communication Association, 2017
ABSTRACTMost references to public sphere theory in the literature of media and communication research today focus on Jurgen Habermas’s early book The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. Since this book’s publication the theory of the public sphere has advanced in a number of ways. Early criticisms have in many ways been accommodated.
Tom Jacobson
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Public Sphere Conceptions: Public Sphere Theory

2022
Christian Nuernbergk   +1 more
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CONSPIRACY, THEORY, AND THE “POST-TRUTH” PUBLIC SPHERE

2023
There is nothing new about the sort of suspicion now commonly called “conspiracy theory,” but the idea that conspiracy theory is a special type of discourse—one that is easily recognized and dismissed as pathological—emerged during the Cold War and is entangled with the history of the security state.
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An American Theory of the Public Sphere

Sociological Forum, 2006
The United States has for most of its history been a victorious nation. Then its historians make comparisons with other nations, they invariably favor the United States. The habit of victory can then become a bad one. "The historian who stands on the side of the victorious," Reinhart Koselleck has written, "is easily tempted to interpret triumphs of ...
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Habermas, democracy and the public sphere: Theory and practice

European Journal of Social Theory, 2021
A fil rouge goes through Habermas’s decade long research. It is the idea that Reason and rationality permeate human societies and may lead human action towards emancipation, if aptly elaborated through the filter of theoretical reflection. Theory must pick up on this rational core and turn the intrinsic rational potential inherent to modern societies ...
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Political Theory and the Bourgeois Public Sphere

2021
AbstractArguing that political theory is an irremediably Western and liberal enterprise, this chapter shows that it is a discipline that does not seek to accurately represent and explain an object, but is rather knowledge “for,” performance rather than representation.
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Democratic Theory and the Athenian Public Sphere

Polis, 2016
Classical Athens has left to political theorists a dual legacy: a crucial historical case of democratic practice, and a rich tradition of political reflection. A growing number of scholars have placed the relationship between these two legacies at the center of their research.
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