In September 2022, 60 years after he first released the German edition of The Structural Transformation Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category Bourgeois Society (STPS) in 1962, Habermas published A New Sphere and Deliberative Politics (Ein neuer Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit und die deliberative Politik). This “new engagement with an old theme” (Habermas, 2022c, p. 7) has been long time ...

This article peruses the discourse concerning European public sphere initiated by Habermas in early 1960s and assessments of arguments a variety commentators who have drawn attention to globalisation its multiplicity. In this context I suggest that notion must be understood relation concept 'viral modernity' including viral open media on one hand, technologies post-truth other which systematica...

In recent times much has been said about the possibility that the two-way, decentralized communications of cyberspace can provide sites of rational-critical discourse autonomous from state and economic interests and thus extending the public sphere at large. In this paper the extent to which the Internet does in fact enhance the public sphere is evaluated. Online deliberative practices are comp...