Conspiracy theories have become a ubiquitous feature of contemporary culture. From communication studies perspective, conspiracy undermine democratic by misleading the public. However, normative concept public sphere also upholds values giving visibility to diverse perspectives and facilitating reasoned debate. Thus, academics can acknowledge harms claims while being open, in principle, their p...

As the multiple issues of digital public sphere threaten our democracies and cohesion societies, most attempts for a betterment networks platforms revolve around risk-response approach. This paper takes opposite approach develops positive definition ideal ethical sphere, combining normative features with original taxonomies. In view defining common standards healthy this offers an interdiscipli...

Abstract This article proposes to conceptualize the public sphere as a dynamic network of actors and contents that are linked with each other by communicative actions. perspective allows us theoretically derive empirically describe entire range small large structures their evolution over time. First, we will define elements these networks, which include actors, content, actions, content relatio...

The rise in popularity of Twitter has led to a debate on its impact on public opinions. The optimists foresee an increase in online participation and democratization due to social media’s personal and interactive nature. Cyber-pessimists, on the other hand, explain how social media can lead to selective exposure and can be used as a disguise for those in power to disseminate biased information....

This article explores the idea of the democratic public sphere, and it is grounded in the work of Jurgen Habermas. Libraries help make possible the democratic public sphere ideal in the form of rational organization of human cultural production and they embody an essential element of democracy: a place where the ideal of unfettered communication and investigation exists in rudimentary form, hos...