The Internet Soapbox : Perspectives on a Changing Public Sphere

• Tác giả: Terje Rasmussen
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-8215027173
• Thông tin xuất bản: Scandinavian University Press (Universitetsforlaget), 2016
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (147 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 236168

Tóm tắt

This book reviews Internet research and political theory seeking theoretically "cool-headed" perspectives on the current public political spaces in advanced societies. Aspects of the political theories of Rawls and Habermas are discussed and contrasted with contestation-oriented theories. In light of how the Internet takes part in structurally transforming the public sphere, the book draws on sociological and realist insights in order to encircle a more realist view. It briefly reconsiders such strange bedfellows as sociological systems theory (Niklas Luhmann) and political realism (eg. Bernard Williams). The purpose is not to construct a realist theory of the internet-based public sphere, but to point out central insights on which such a theory can be built.