1st Edition

The Liquefaction of Publicness Communication, Democracy and the Public Sphere in the Internet Age

Edited By Slavko Splichal Copyright 2019
286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

Slavko Splichal is Professor of Communication and Public Opinion in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and a fellow of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is Founder and Director of the European Institute for Communication and Culture and Editor of its journal Javnost - The Public.