Richard Kaplan
Biographic Data
| ID | 10619260 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Kaplan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaplan |
| SIGNATURE | KAPLAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
An Italian public sphere
This special issue of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies takes Jürgen Habermas's landmark analysis of the modern public sphere as its point of departure for exploring the Italians' historical relation to democracy. The introduction first sketches the innovative dimensions of Habermas's effort to ground the legitimacy of modern democracy in the open, reasoned dialogue of an independent public opinion. It then raises questions about the status o…
Journalism History
Newspapers emerged in colonial British North America in the early 1700s. By the time the first muskets were fired in the American revolt against King George III in 1775, a powerful new cultural imagining of the press's central role in the public debates of citizens and the functioning of modern democracy defined journalism. Newspapers were seen as essential to liberty, spreading information and opinion among “free‐born citizens.” Indeed, across t…
The American press and political community
This paper argues that the tripartite model of society — economy, state, civil society — offers possibilities for the comparative analysis of news media in democratic countries. Ideally, the press is embedded in civil society's `public sphere' with its participatory and deliberative norms. However the media is also dependent upon the instrumental functions of the economy and the polity. The shifting public posture of the daily press of Detroit in…
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The American press and political community
This paper argues that the tripartite model of society — economy, state, civil society — offers possibilities for the comparative analysis of news media in democratic countries. Ideally, the press is embedded in civil society's `public sphere' with its participatory and deliberative norms. However the media is also dependent upon the instrumental functions of the economy and the polity. The shifting public posture of the daily press of Detroit in…
Journalism History
Newspapers emerged in colonial British North America in the early 1700s. By the time the first muskets were fired in the American revolt against King George III in 1775, a powerful new cultural imagining of the press's central role in the public debates of citizens and the functioning of modern democracy defined journalism. Newspapers were seen as essential to liberty, spreading information and opinion among “free‐born citizens.” Indeed, across t…
An Italian public sphere
This special issue of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies takes Jürgen Habermas's landmark analysis of the modern public sphere as its point of departure for exploring the Italians' historical relation to democracy. The introduction first sketches the innovative dimensions of Habermas's effort to ground the legitimacy of modern democracy in the open, reasoned dialogue of an independent public opinion. It then raises questions about the status o…
Democracy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Public sphere (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Journalism (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · American History and Culture (1 work)