New Media, Counter Publicity and the Public Sphere

Downey, John; Fenton, Natalie

doi:10.1177/1461444803005002003

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“…On the other side, Downey and Fenton (2003) quote the expression "bad civil society" from Chambers and Kopstein (2001) described as being capable of creating a counter public sphere that could alter democratic public dialogue. Lunat (2008) notes that the Internet leads in several cases in developing countries to promoting violence due to the 'fragile structure' of public spheres in these communities.…”

Section: The Internet and Democracymentioning

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Challenges and Opportunities in Using the Internet to Realize Democracy in Egypt

Azab

2012

JNARB

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There is a widespread belief that the Internet provides real opportunities for democratization and political transformation, especially in authoritarian regimes characterized by a strong restriction on freedom of speech and expression and inability of civic engagement and participation. Such role has been clearly witnessed with the rise of the Arab spring in general, and in Egypt in particular. During the 18 days of the Egyptian revolution starting on 25th January 2011, and afterwards, the Internet proved to be an important tool in mobilizing people, coordinating between protestors and documenting and publishing facts that occurred on the ground during the revolution. However, such optimistic view cannot be supported unconditionally due to several reasons related to the uniqueness of each country. This paper therefore attempts to critically examine the potential of the Internet on the political transformation in Egypt taking into consideration a full context covering economical, political, technological and social dimensions. Studying these various aspects would highlight the challenges and opportunities that affect the Internet in changing the political situation during the transitional period the country is going through.

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Section: The Internet and Democracymentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges and Opportunities in Using the Internet to Realize Democracy in Egypt

Azab

2012

JNARB

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“…The notion of the counter-public sphere helps us better understand the increasingly important role of citizen journalism today. A counter-public sphere resists dominant communications, offering citizens forms of solidarity that are grounded in a collective experience of marginalisation and expropriation (Downey & Fenton, 2003). Citizen podcasts in Korea permit ordinary individuals to construct an inexpensive virtual counter-public sphere against the mass-media public sphere, as Castells (2007, p. 249) aptly said, 'The emergence of mass self communication offers an extraordinary medium for social movements and rebellious individuals to build their autonomy and confront the institutions of society in their own terms and around their own projects.'…”

Section: Media Landscape and The Public Sphere Of South Koreamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Citizen journalism forms a counter public sphere that seeks to challenge the dominant public sphere of a society beyond mere independence from it (Downey & Fenton, 2003;Kluge &Negt, 2016). The notion of the counter-public sphere helps us better understand the increasingly important role of citizen journalism today.…”

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Citizen news podcasts and engaging journalism: The formation of a counter-public sphere in South Korea

Park

2017

PJR

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Abstract:This study examines what roles citizen news podcasts of South Korea play, based on two unique concepts-carnivalism and engaging journalism. To this end, the current study content analysed the content of 11 citizen news podcasts that are most popular in this country and conducted interviews with 10 professional journalists. The findings reveal that through the use of comedic techniques such as humour, parody, and satire, the discourse of citizen podcasts transgresses existing social and cultural hierarchies and subverts a range of authoritative discourses by mainstream media. The analysis also finds that the discourse in citizen news podcasts takes on the nature of engaging journalism, which motivates ordinary individuals who are left largely disillusioned from mainstream journalism to engage in elitechallenging political action. Professional journalists admitted that citizen news podcasts provide an opportunity to re-evaluate the journalism norms and practices of South Korea.

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“…It is a highly pluralistic public sphere. Many online communities, as well as sub-and counter-cultures that could not have proper place and role in the public communication realm dominated by the corporate mass media in the offline world have emerged and expanded on the Internet ignoring state and social boundaries [ 1,7,8,10,19,20]. This research attempts to study the political culture of the common, ordinary people, of the laymen, who are not professional politicians but nonetheless are active in civic terms online and often offline too.…”

Section: The Virtual Public Sphere As a Space For Democratic Communicmentioning

confidence: 99%

You Say "Yes", I Say “No”: Capturing and Measuring ‘Public Opinion’ through Citizens’ Conversation Online (on the Russian-Language LiveJornal Blogging Platform)

Misnikov¹

2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. The paper presents the results of the empirical study devoted to mapping and measuring the aggregated political positions -viewed as a specific form of discursive public opinion -expressed by ordinary citizens on a discussion forum on the Russian internet. The study is considered as part of the broader inquiry into the field of online deliberations. New evidence is discussed in this regard by deepening the empirical side of claim making and validation through studying agreements and disagreements among online discussants using Jurgen Habermas' notion of validity claims to normative rightness. The claim-based approach has helped reveal, firstly, how participants problematize issues of public importance and what these issues are, and, secondly, which intersubjective solidarities (groups) participants form around these issues. The paper concludes by considering both the epistemic and pragmatic aspects of such results for better understanding the participatory value of public discussions online from a perspective of discursive sociology and public trust building.

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New Media, Counter Publicity and the Public Sphere

Cited by 348 publications

References 11 publications

Challenges and Opportunities in Using the Internet to Realize Democracy in Egypt

Challenges and Opportunities in Using the Internet to Realize Democracy in Egypt

Citizen news podcasts and engaging journalism: The formation of a counter-public sphere in South Korea

You Say "Yes", I Say “No”: Capturing and Measuring ‘Public Opinion’ through Citizens’ Conversation Online (on the Russian-Language LiveJornal Blogging Platform)

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