The Virtual Transformation of the Public Sphere : Knowledge, Politics, Identity Hardback
Edited by Gaurav Desai
Part of the Critical Interventions in Theory and Praxis series
Hardback
Description
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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:316 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:21/02/2013
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- ISBN:9780415811712
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:316 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:21/02/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415811712
