Digital media seemed to finally fulfill the bourgeois public sphereās equality claim
Evidence
The new pattern of communication has generated two remarkable effects for the structural transformation of the public sphere. At first, the egalitarian-universalistic claim of the bourgeois public sphere to include all citizens equally seemed to be finally fulfilled in the guise of the new media. These media promised to grant all citizens their own publicly perceptible voice and even to lend it mobilizing power. They would liberate users from the receptive role of addressees who choose between a limited range of programmes and give each individual the chance to make his or her voice heard in the anarchic exchange of spontaneous opinions. ā JĆ¼rgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of theā¦, 34
Categorization
- XREF: Directly engages the 1962 classic the reader is reading against ā this is the payoff of the revisitation. ā connects to: Digital media blur the private-public boundary even though its structural basis persists ā JĆ¼rgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of theā¦, 22; Extending the public sphere made bourgeois theorists brand the people a fickle mass ā Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,ā¦, 2370
- ADDENDUM: The two-effects framing (self-empowerment vs. cost of lost editorial tutelage) parallels the tradeoff logic of sacrificing-ādeath of the editorā-type analyses.
Related
- Digital media blur the private-public boundary even though its structural basis persists (similarity 0.87)
- Digital platforms are not media in the traditional sense (similarity 0.82)
- Social media may be changing citizensā perception of the public sphere itself (similarity 0.81)
- Extending the public sphere made bourgeois theorists brand the people a fickle mass (similarity 0.80)