Mass daily news created the modern public sphere and public opinion

Evidence

Large numbers of people taking in daily news gave rise to what Jürgen Habermas has called a “public sphere”4—a more quotidian term for this effect is “public opinion,” but by whatever name, it was a new phenomenon, and one dependent on the nascent but growing attention industry. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 42

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Habermas’ ‘public sphere’ and ties it directly to the attention industry.
• XREF: Habermas’ Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere — and connects to the reader’s media-history thread. — connects to: Publicizing information itself became the method of modern political rule — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 309; Social media may be changing citizens’ perception of the public sphere itself — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 43; Newspapers created national togetherness by shifting simultaneity from historical time to shared space — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 89 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Publicizing information itself became the method of modern political rule #corroborates (0.85) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 309
• Newspapers created national togetherness by shifting simultaneity from historical time to shared space #expands (0.85) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 89
• Media orient citizens by sifting out intersubjectively shared interpretations of the world #expands (0.80) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 41
• Social media’s fragmentation and boundary-dissolution combine to undermine the national public sphere’s integrating power #qualifies (0.80) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 35
• Social media may be changing citizens’ perception of the public sphere itself #qualifies (0.75) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 43
• The public sphere is defined by shared topics and editorial quality, not participation parity #qualifies (0.75) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 44
• Global modern institutions depend on pooled shared knowledge via news #expands (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 193