public sphere

Dictionary of the Social Sciences;      700+ words ...public sphere and private sphere The modern public sphere has two related meanings: it refers both to the open...has attributed a range of democratic functions to the public sphere: the business of weighing and formulating opinion, discussing...

Public sphere/contact zone: Habermas, early print, and verse...

Criticism;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ...CAN WE INDENTIFY AN early modern public sphere, a space for critique freed from the...but also a certain kind of literary public sphere. According to Halasz, print permanently...this new space for English poetry the public sphere of early print. However, there are...

Parsing Habermas's "bourgeois public sphere".(Critical Essay)

Criticism;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......DEBATE OVER THE early history of the public sphere provides a good index of the fruitfulness...associated with the category of the public sphere seems to confirm widespread accord...views of what Habermas means by the public sphere. This being the case, the problem of...

Religion in the Public Sphere: Challenges and Opportunities

Brigham Young University Law Review;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......reflection on the place of religion in the public sphere in both Europe and the United States...absence of religious expression in the public sphere. The constitutional principle of lacit...manifest religious conviction in the public sphere. It is often said by Frenchmen that...

John Michael Roberts: The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public...

Capital & Class;  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, 288 pp...determining moments of the capitalist public sphere. At the same time, however, the book...therefore appropriate for expression in the public sphere. In doing so, the book contains an...

Television and the Public Sphere

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly;  October 1, 1996 ;     642 words ...Television and the Public Sphere. Peter Dahlgren. Thousand Oaks...Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (English translation, 1962) discussed...formation and disintegration of the "public sphere," a realm of social life where...

Campaign argument and the liberal public sphere: a case study of the...

Argumentation and Advocacy;  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......enormous literature on the status of the public sphere exists. Often drawing on the work of...have developed several theories of the public sphere and analyzed any number of campaigns...the role of expert peering into the public sphere in order to draw conclusions. An alternative...

understanding celebrity and the public sphere

Cultural Studies Review;  September 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...understanding celebrity and the public sphere ALAN McKEE The Public Sphere: An Introduction Cambridge University Press...on 'Celebrity, the Tabloid and the Democratic Public Sphere', and his 'Conclusion: Celebrity and Public Culture...

Introduction: charting Habermas's "literary" or "precursor" public sphere.

Criticism;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......address the general question, When is a public sphere? We had organized these sessions in...enabling designation of a bourgeois public sphere that emerged at the beginning of the...assertions of the emergence of a bourgeois public sphere in the sixteenth century, and particularly...

Mainstream and marginal newspaper coverage of the 1995 Quebec Referendum:...

The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology;  August 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......into the Functioning of the Canadian Public Sphere* Cet article applique le concept habermassien...article employs Habermas's concept of the public sphere in examining the relationship between...that there is neither a single unified public sphere nor multiple discrete publics. ...

The bourgeois public sphere and the concept of literature.(Critical Essay)

Criticism;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......BERMAS'S CONCEPTUALIZATION of a bourgeois public sphere has recently exerted a powerful influence...culture in anticipating the bourgeois public sphere. (1) The English Renaissance indeed possesses a public sphere: pulpit, print, theater. Whether...

Media publics and the transnational public sphere.

Critical Arts;  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...The transnational public sphere THE PUBLIC sphere is back. After a long period when it was associated with...discourse to counter the power of the centralised state, the public sphere is now being thought of in different ways. (1) In media...

Satellite Television and Public Sphere in Egypt: Is there a Link?

Global Media Journal;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......general and to a fragmentation of the public sphere and an increase of political cynicism...communication technologies affect the public sphere. More importantly is that political...between electronic communications and public sphere and the level of democracy within a...

"I'll Rise": Rememory, Hope and the Creation of a New Public Sphere in Ben...

Ethnic Studies Review;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......a means to expand the contemporary public sphere. This project explores the role of...in the fostering of a more inclusive public sphere. "I'll Rise" refers both to Maya Angelou...defining the possibility to foster a public sphere through music, this study will analyze...

Public sphere, postmodernism and polemic.

American Political Science Review;  June 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......In his article Postmodernism and the Public Sphere, Dana Villa (1992a) disputes the way...theorists currently conceptualize the public sphere. In particular, he objects to those...identify Hannah Arendt's rendering of the public sphere as a model for a dialogical, consensus...