A Private Sphere

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Online technologies excite the public imagination withnarratives of democratization. The Internet is a political medium,borne of democracy, but is it democratizing? Late modern democracies are characterized by civic apathy,public skepticism, disillusionment with politics, and generaldisinterest in conventional political process. And yet, publicinterest in blogging, online news, net-based activism,collaborative news filtering, and online networking reveal anelectorate that is not disinterested, but rather, fatigued withpolitical conventions of the mainstream. This book examines how online digital media shape and are shapedby contemporary democracies, by addressing the followingissues: * How do online technologies remake how we function as citizensin contemporary democracies? * What happens to our understanding of public and private asdigitalized democracies converge technologies, spaces andpractices? * How do citizens of today understand and practice their civicresponsibilities, and how do they compare to citizens of thepast? * How do discourses of globalization, commercialization andconvergence inform audience/producer, citizen/consumer,personal/political, public/private roles individuals must takeon? * Are resulting political behaviors atomized or collective? * Is there a public sphere anymore, and if not, what model ofcivic engagement expresses current tendencies and tensionsbest? Students and scholars of media studies, political science, andcritical theory will find this to be a fresh engagement with someof the most important questions facing democracies today.

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Zizi A. Papacharissi

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Communication & Media Studies Kommunikation u. Medienforschung Neue Medien New Media

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"This is a deeply thoughtful book that asks a genuinely importantquestionÑDo the new media empower us or do they trap us in ourown cocoons, cutting us off from meaningful contact with others?Papacharissi doesn't let the reader off easily. Insistently,beguilingly, she brings up uncomfortable issuesÑWhy are blogsso narcissistic? What happens politically when YouTube goes beyondthe pale?Ñand she never settles for easy answers. If you careabout politics, if you care about modernity, read this book." Roderick P. Hart, University of Texas at Austin "Papacharissi is a pioneer in the study of democracy and how it is"practiced" in the digital age. A Private Sphere is a deep,thoughtful exploration of citizenship, information, and technologyat a moment of great fluidity. Anyone with an interest in how mediashape political culture would do well to engage the arguments ofthis terrific book." Susan Herbst, Georgia Tech "An thoughtful and thought-provoking book. Papacharissi's argumentthat the convergence of technology, practices and spaces is openinga private sphere as the locus for reworked modes of citizenship isan intriguing and important one. Read this book!" Charles Whitney, Northwestern University
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