Habermas, mass communication technology and the future of the public sphere

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ID11420041
AuthorsMark Jacob Amiradakis (0000-0002-0009-2879, University of the Free State, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume38
Issue2
Pages149-165
Publication date2019-04-03
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSouth African Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0258-0136 • E-ISSN: 2073-4867
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02580136.2019.1620515
OpenAlexW2963177915
LanguageEN
References cited17

This paper focuses on Habermas’s analysis of the bourgeois public sphere and its inextricable relationship to mass communication technology – particularly in relation to his pioneering work, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. Within this investigation, it will be argued that while Habermas’s views are still to be regarded as being highly insightful and relevant when attempting to gain an understanding of what it is that a legitimate public sphere actually encompasses, along with what the necessary preconditions entail in order for a public sphere to be established, Habermas’s critical analysis is not without its shortcomings. As insightful as Habermas’s views may be, they do require a certain amount of revision and updating. As such, Habermas’s insights are to be understood as providing the contemporary critical researcher with a solid, yet flexible, basis from where it is that the notion of the modern, electronically infused, public sphere of the 21st century is to be critically gauged

Bourgeoisie · Economics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Sociology · Computer Science · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Law · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Philosophy · Social Media and Politics

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