The Virtual Transformation of the Public Sphere
Gaurav Desai
This book explores how new media technologies such as e-mails, online forums, blogs and social networking sites have helped shape new forms of public spheres. Offering new readings of Jürgen Habermas’s notion of the public sphere, scholars from diverse disciplines interrogate the power and possibilities of new media in creating and disseminating public information; changing human communication at the interpersonal, institutional and societal levels; and affecting our self-fashioning as private and public individuals. Beginning with philosophical approaches to the subject, the book goes on to explore the innovative deployment of new media in areas as diverse as politics, social activism, piracy, sexuality, ethnic identity and education. The book will immensely interest those in media, culture and gender studies, philosophy, political science, sociology and anthropology.
Contributed papers presented at the conference organized by Forum on Contemporary Theory, Vadodara and Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University from 15-18 December, 2010, Chandigarh, India.
Year:
2013
Publisher:
Routledge India
Language:
english
Pages:
307
ISBN 10:
0415589916
ISBN 13:
9780415589918
Series:
Critical Interventions in Theory and Praxis
File:
EPUB, 626 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2013
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