The Liquefaction of Publicness
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The Liquefaction of Publicness

Communication, Democracy and the Public Sphere in the Internet Age

  1. 270 pages
  2. English
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The Liquefaction of Publicness

Communication, Democracy and the Public Sphere in the Internet Age

About this book

The successful Brexit referendum campaign; Donald Trump's election; and the rise of right-wing nationalist-populist political parties and movements – all of these events have incited renewed interest in public communication and the internetised media, deliberative democracy and public spheres, challenged by an informational abundance that generates a communicative liquefaction of publicness and politics.

This book celebrates the 25th anniversary of the journal Javnost – The Public, bringing together internationally renowned scholars from 20 countries to discuss topical issues in contemporary media and communication research. It focuses on challenging issues of the changing nature of publicness and the public sphere in the internet age, issues of democracy and the crisis of public communication and the tasks of media and communication research as a social practice. It critically reflects on the democratisation crisis and the demise of popular and scholarly optimism, which the emerging internet inspired in early 1990s, when Javnost – The Public was founded.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Citation Information
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. 1 Publicness-Privateness: The Liquefaction of "The Great Dichotomy"
  9. 2 Debunking Deference: The Delusions of Unmediated Reality in the Contemporary Public Sphere
  10. 3 Media, Knowledge and Trust: The Deepening Epistemic Crisis of Democracy
  11. 4 Fake Democracy: The Limits of Public Sphere Theory
  12. 5 Visibility and the Public Sphere: A Normative Conceptualisation
  13. 6 Refeudalisation Revisited: The Destruction of Deliberative Democracy
  14. 7 Standpoint, Mediation and the Working-Class Public Sphere
  15. 8 Dissonant and Disconnected Public Spheres as Challenge for Political Communication Research
  16. 9 A Youth-Driven Virtual Civic Public Sphere for the Arab World
  17. 10 Family Feud: Who's Still Fighting about Dewey and Lippmann?
  18. 11 The Crisis of Public Communication, 1995-2017
  19. 12 Democracy and the Internet: A Retrospective
  20. 13 Post-Globalisation
  21. 14 Modern Political Communication and Web 2.0 in Representative Democracies
  22. 15 Revisiting Digital News Audiences with a Political Magnifying Glass
  23. 16 Translation as Politics
  24. 17 The Alt-Right as a Community of Discourse
  25. 18 Post-Communism, Democratisation and the Media: (Nearly) Thirty Years On
  26. 19 Putin's Slangy Newspeak as a Paradox of His Public Communication
  27. 20 Digital Media, Contentious Politics and Party Systems in Italy and Spain
  28. 21 The Detached Observer: On a Necessary Change to the Self-Image of Journalists in the Digital World
  29. 22 The Double Hermeneutics of Communication Research
  30. 23 Fast-Capitalist Veils from Communication Theory for "The Public" and Its "Discourse"
  31. 24 Reframing the Paradox of Pluralism as a Communication Problem
  32. 25 New Technologies, Old Questions: The Enduring Issues of Communications Research
  33. 26 A Critical Perspective on the Post-Internet World
  34. 27 Communication Research: Resignation or Optimism?
  35. 28 On Human Communication
  36. 29 Studying Political Economies of Communication in the Twenty-First Century
  37. 30 Expanding the Epistemological Horizon: Institutionalised Visual Knowledge and Human Rights
  38. 31 Researching Fake News: A Selective Examination of Empirical Studies
  39. 32 Gendering Media Policy Research and Communication Governance
  40. Index