... publics. I first situate the theorization of affective publics in the critiques of the Habermasian approach to the public sphere. Building on critical race, feminist and queer studies on affect, I examine the concept of affective publics from the lens of Chinese American history. I argue that we can...

.... The example refers to an enquiry into building a public sphere around education in Poland. First, a post-critical approach in educational research is defined with reference to the two dominant perspectives of social research, namely the (neo)positivistic and the critical paradigm. Next, and following insights...

... that can mitigate such problematic developments by correcting false authorities and by providing endorsement for unrecognized authorities. We conclude with a research agenda to study functional forms of epistemic authorities and epistemic intermediaries in the digital public sphere. epistemic authority...

...Katarzyna Zielińska; Irena Borowik; Inga Koralewska; Marcin Zwierżdżyński Abstract The existing research on and conceptualization of the public presence of religion usually builds on the Habermasian understanding of the public sphere. This has centered the discussion on the public presence...

...Lewis A Friedland; Risto Kunelius Abstract For the Habermasian theory of the “public sphere” to make sense in the 2020s, it must be able to address the modern tendency toward global systemic crises. To examine the relevance of the Habermasian public sphere to today’s deeply interconnected digital...

... heterogeneity and enabling public debate, the public sphere is vital for fostering social cohesion. However, platformization—that is, the establishment of social media platforms as an infrastructure for public communication—challenges the constitution of publics and thus raises the question of whether...

.../by/4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A second bias concerns the digital platforms analyzed in public sphere(s) scholarship. Generally, and unsurprisingly given their rising importance, more scholars focus...

... Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract As public sphere(s) have been...

...Thomas N Friemel; Christoph Neuberger Abstract This article proposes to conceptualize the public sphere as a dynamic network of actors and contents that are linked with each other by communicative actions. This perspective allows us to theoretically derive and empirically describe the entire range...

...Hans-Jörg Trenz By asking how public spheres are transformed by the Internet, we arrive at a response to the more fundamental question of whether the co-constitutive dynamics between the public sphere and democracy still apply in the digital age, or whether we are witnessing an ultimate rupture. I...

... theoretically and empirically accurate. In doing so, we conceptualize public spheres as indelible outgrowths of social structures, even as they work to transform them in turn, and provide a framework for scholars to understand public spheres through the lens of history, social differentiation, relations...

...Andreas Jungherr; Ralph Schroeder public sphere public arena artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) ChatGPT VolkswagenStiftung 10.13039/501100001663 Important parts of the contemporary public sphere rely on digital structures that increasingly depend on artificial...

... of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract “The” public sphere is now irretrievably fractured into a multiplicity of online...

...Wendy Willems 08 02 2022 14 06 2022 09 11 2022 It is crucial to unsettle the unproblematic celebration of European liberal modernity that is at the heart of Habermas’ The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, and which...

... for depolarization, and calls for future research aimed not only at better understanding the extent and nature of religion’s deployment of these resources, but also their effectiveness in countering the polarizing dynamics in contemporary society. religion democracy beliefs civil society/public sphere politics...

... takes place in an ambiguous zone in between private and public, where both make their influence felt, but neither dominates the other. This has implications not only for how we should understand Arendt's educational philosophy but also for her notions of private and public spheres as well as for other...

... of mediated contestation itself. Different normative models of democracy inform different normative conceptions of the public sphere, which in turn play out in diverging quality standards for mediated public debate. Such quality standards can then be used to conduct systematic normative assessment...

... the collection of essays in this special forum. Digital Culture South Asia Postcolonial Public Sphere Agency Surveillance Control In closing, we thank all the authors in this forum for writing their articles in the midst of the global Covid-19 pandemic. We are also grateful to CCC editor, Melissa...

... exclusion and inclusion of right-wing populist voices wield counter-productive effects, I juxtapose Habermas’s public sphere theory to Mouffe’s model of agonistic pluralism and posit that both are ultimately insufficient to tackle the populist danger, albeit for different reasons. However, by synthesizing...

... critiques of neoliberalism, I argue that this model portends significant anti-democratic consequences. Citing former U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ campaign to reorganize public education as a market, I illustrate the contemporary circulation of this model. Neoliberalism Public Sphere Milton...