Public Sphere

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Public Sphere

• Miss Sutasinee Nirattimanon

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- Historical phenomenon
Public Sphere
- Normative idea
In Jurgen Habermass The Structural
Transformation of the Public Sphere
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Public sphere as historical phenomenon

• Who segments of the educated, propertied strata
  (highly male-oriented)
• What reasoned and critical exchange of view and
  information on questions of common concern
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Public sphere as historical phenomenon

• When in the eighteenth century
• Where salons, coffee houses and clubs France,
  England and Germany
• Why to form public opinion that will in turn
  shape policies of the state and development of
  society

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Public sphere as historical phenomenon

• How Equal, critical, collective
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Role of media

• Intellectual journals, pamphlets and newspaper

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Role of media

• To notify about upcoming events (to seek
  participation) and to inform members about
  resolution and movement of group
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Role of media

• Very little to non-existent commercial role
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• Civil
• Society
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Decline of public sphere

• Mass democracy
• Commercialization of press and society
• The welfare state

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Public sphere as normative ideal
Democratic communication
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A Public sphere is

• A neutral zone where access to relevant
  information affecting the public good is widely
  available where discussion is free domination and
  where all those participating in public debate do
  so on an equal basis

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A Public sphere is

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A Public sphere is

• Within this public sphere, people collectively
  determine through the process of rational debate
  the way in which they want to see society
  develop, and this shapes in turn the conduct of
  government policy.

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A Public sphere is

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Dimensions of the public sphere

• Access (open)
• Equality and freedom from domination
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Dimensions of the public sphere

• Collactive participation
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• Rational dialogue and argument

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Dimensions of the public sphere

• Conclusion or resolution about further movement
  that will affect government policy or political
  action

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Dimensions of the public sphere

• Role of media as provider or public space for
  exchange and debate and as multiplier
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  resolution obtained in the group discussion

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Communication

• Face- to- face communication newspaper
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• Mass-mediated communication e.g. radio,
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• Virtual communication e.g. Internet/cyberspace
  and CMC

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Pseudo public sphere

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Evaluating the public sphere

• The public sphere cannot be seen as space
  operating in isolation from all other social,
  political and economic domain
• To understand the public sphere, one has to look
  at specific historical circumstances which both
  comprise its space and pre-condition for it
  funcioning

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