By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Gunpowder and Lead, September 4, 2012
Juergen Habermas’s public sphere (Photo credit: Snurb)
…is the public sphere succeeding or failing? (I know, big terms, and defining success or failure is no simple task.) Is it better or worse than it was ten, twenty, thirty years ago? I offer no conclusions, nor do I claim that we are faced with a monolith. I agree with Andrew Exum, for example, about the many benefits available to a policy researcher who is engaged with social media. So, as Eric Cartman says, I’m just asking questions. I will be writing about the public sphere here from time to time, and this is an initial post anchoring the discussion… (more) http://ow.ly/1mi5Nz
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