Responding to the growing gap between the sociological ethos & the world we study, the challenge of public sociology is to engage multiple publics in multiple ways. These public sociologies should ...not be left out in the cold, but brought into the framework of our discipline. In this way we make public sociology a visible & legitimate enterprise, &, thereby, invigorate the discipline as a whole. Accordingly, if we map out the division of sociological labor we discover antagonistic interdependence among four types of knowledge: professional, critical, policy, & public. In the best of all worlds the flourishing of each type of sociology is a condition for the flourishing of all, but they can just as easily assume pathological forms or become victims of exclusion & subordination. This field of power beckons us to explore the relations among the four types of sociology as they vary historically & nationally, & as they provide the template for divergent individual careers. Finally, comparing disciplines points to the umbilical chord that connects sociology to the world of publics, underlining sociology's particular investment in the defense of civil society, itself beleaguered by the encroachment of markets & states. 3 Tables, 92 References. Adapted from the source document.
After the post-public sphere Schlesinger, Philip
Media, culture & society,
10/2020, Letnik:
42, Številka:
7-8
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
The idea of a public sphere has long been central to discussion of political communication. Its present condition is the topic of this essay. Debate about the public sphere has been shaped by the ...boundary-policing of competing political systems and ideologies. Current discussion reflects the accelerating transition from the mass media era to the ramifying entrenchment of the Internet age. It has also been influenced by the vogue for analysing populism. The present transitional phase, whose outcome remains unclear, is best described as an unstable ‘post-public sphere’. This instability is not unusual as, over time, conceptions of the public sphere’s underpinnings and scope have continually shifted. Latterly, states’ responses to the development of the Internet have given rise to a new shift of focus, a ‘regulatory turn’. This is likely to influence the future shape of the public sphere.
Liberale Demokratien sind auf eine funktionierende politische Öffentlichkeit angewiesen. Seit einigen Jahren zeichnen sich aber in vielen Gesellschaften bedenkliche Entwicklungen ab. Diese Tendenzen ...werden, mit Bezug auf die deutsche Öffentlichkeit, in diesem philosophischen Essay als Politisierung, Moralisierung und Sakralisierung kritisch analysiert. Etliche negative Konsequenzen werden beschrieben. Am bedenklichsten ist wohl, dass Wissenschaft und Kunst ihre Autonomie einbüßen sowie der Hintergrundkonsens, auf den sich Demokratien stützen, zerbricht. Wie kommt es zu diesen Entwicklungen? Zwei der verantwortlichen Faktoren sind die multiplen Krisen der Gegenwart und die Ausweitung der Öffentlichkeit.
Liberal democracies depend on a functioning political public sphere. In recent years, however, alarming developments have become apparent in many societies. These tendencies, with reference to the German public sphere, are critically analyzed in this philosophical essay as politicization, moralization and sacralization. Several negative consequences are described. What is perhaps most worrying is that science and art are losing their autonomy and the background consensus on which democracies rely is breaking down. How do these developments come about? Two of the responsible factors are the multiple crises of the present and the expansion of the public sphere.
Rezente Transformationen von Öffentlichkeiten fordern die kommunikationswissenschaftliche Theoriebildung und Forschung heraus. Dieser Beitrag rückt Praktiken des Widersprechens in den Fokus, denn in ...vernetzten Öffentlichkeiten haben sich deren Modi weiterentwickelt und diversifiziert – und die Folgen sind mitunter paradox: Widersprechen erzeugt hochvolatile, von Polyvokalität und Ungleichheit geprägte Öffentlichkeiten. Diese sind u. a. durch das Spannungsverhältnis von Sprechen und Gehört-Werden, von Widersprechen und zum Schweigen-Gebracht-Werden gekennzeichnet. Zentrale Annahmen der hier vorgelegten Heuristik sind, dass Paradoxien des Widersprechens öffentlichkeits- und affekttheoretisch verstanden werden müssen. In den Blick zu nehmen sind dabei die öffentlichkeits- und sozialtheoretische Situierung, die je spezifischen Rahmenbedingungen, die bestimmte Modi des Widersprechens hervorbringen, sowie die Agency der sich artikulierenden Akteur:innen. Ziel ist es, eine Forschungsheuristik anzubieten, die es gleichermaßen erlaubt, Praktiken des Widersprechens zu erfassen, zu analysieren und zu deuten als auch wiederkehrende Muster und Strukturbedingungen des Widersprechens zu identifizieren.
This paper investigates political homophily on Twitter. Using a combination of machine learning and social network analysis we classify users as Democrats or as Republicans based on the political ...content shared. We then investigate political homophily both in the network of reciprocated and nonreciprocated ties. We find that structures of political homophily differ strongly between Democrats and Republicans. In general, Democrats exhibit higher levels of political homophily. But Republicans who follow official Republican accounts exhibit higher levels of homophily than Democrats. In addition, levels of homophily are higher in the network of reciprocated followers than in the nonreciprocated network. We suggest that research on political homophily on the Internet should take the political culture and practices of users seriously.
El presente texto se divide en tres partes, en la primera se describen los legados del pasado reciente de la política latinoamericana, en la segunda parte se abordan seis aspectos de cariz teórico ...que van a tener una relevancia notable en los tiempos venideros, la tercera analiza el impacto inmediato de la pandemia sobre la democracia en cuatro ejes. El texto es de carácter especulativo, y su finalidad principal estriba en abrir debates que son necesarios en el ámbito público y que no debieran quedar recluidos en la arena académica. Algunos de los puntos abordados requieren una validación empírica tanto de su contenido como de su impacto. O presente texto está dividido em três partes, na primeira parte são descritos os legados do passado recente da política latino-americana, na segunda parte são abordados seis aspectos de natureza teórica que terão uma relevância notável no próximos tempos, o terceiro analisa o impacto imediato da pandemia na democracia em quatro eixos. O texto tem caráter especulativo e tem como principal objetivo abrir debates que se fazem necessários na esfera pública e que não devem se restringir à arena acadêmica. Alguns dos pontos abordados requerem validação empírica tanto de seu conteúdo quanto de seu impacto.
La evaluación de la vulnerabilidad económica territorial constituye un análisis clave para definir estrategias y cursos de acción en el ámbito público. Sin embargo, a este proceso le es inherente un ...alto grado de subjetividad, por lo que se requiere de alternativas metodológicas que propicien reducir la preferencia, indiferencia o ausencia de preferencias en su evaluación. El objetivo de este artículo es realizar una evaluación de la vulnerabilidad económica territorial con enfoque multicriterio. Para esto se desarrolló un procedimiento basado en el método Saaty, estructurado en tres fases, seis pasos y siete tareas. Como resultado de su aplicación en el municipio Calixto García, se determinó que este experimenta un grado de vulnerabilidad económica medio. Asimismo, se identificaron y jerarquizaron los criterios que inciden en dicho estadio, los cuales deben ser mitigados o eliminados mediante la acción pública.
Asking whether social media can plausibly facilitate a European public sphere, this article provides the first operationalization and empirical examination of Europeanization of social media ...communications. It maps the geospatial structure of Twitter activity around Greece’s 2015 bailout negotiations. We find that Twitter activity showed clear signs of Europeanization. Twitter users across Europe tweeted about the bailout negotiations and coalesced around shared grievances. Furthermore, Twitter activity was remarkably transnational in orientation, as users interacted more often with users in other European Union (EU) countries than with domestic ones. As such, social media allowed users to communicate with one another unencumbered by national boundaries, to bring into existence an ad hoc, issue-based European public sphere.
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