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Social Media and the Digital Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
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Abstract
This article explores the question of how to understand social media following the Habermasian theory of the structural transformation of the public sphere. We argue for a return to political-economic fundamentals as the basis for analysing the public sphere and seek to establish a characteristic co... view more
This article explores the question of how to understand social media following the Habermasian theory of the structural transformation of the public sphere. We argue for a return to political-economic fundamentals as the basis for analysing the public sphere and seek to establish a characteristic connection between digital-behavioural control and singularised audiences in the context of proprietary markets. In the digital constellation, it is less a matter of immobilising the citizen as a consumer but rather of their political activation - albeit in conditions under which commercial interests have primacy: privatisation without privatism.... view less
Keywords
social media; structural change; public space; privatization; capitalism; the public
Classification
Media Politics, Information Politics, Media Law
Free Keywords
Jürgen Habermas; digital capitalism; public sphere; structural transformation
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 129-143
Journal
Theory, culture & society : explorations in critical social science, 39 (2022) 4
ISSN
1460-3616
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed