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.
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.
In this conversation, Berkeley-based philosopher Judith Butler offers insights into her understanding of the public sphere and its current transformations as a core dimension of political ...subjectivity. Beginning with her own understanding of Habermas’ classic, the interview centers around its connection to other classical texts (e.g. of Hannah Arendt) and timely political debates.
This article contains reflections on the further structural transformation of the public sphere, building on the author’s widely-discussed social-historical study, The Structural Transformation of ...the Public Sphere, which originally appeared in German in 1962 (English translation 1989). The first three sections contain preliminary theoretical reflections on the relationship between normative and empirical theory, the deliberative understanding of democracy, and the demanding preconditions of the stability of democratic societies under conditions of capitalism. The fourth section turns to the implications of digitalisation for the account of the role of the media in the public sphere developed in the original work, specifically to how it is leading to the expansion and fragmentation of the public sphere and is turning all participants into potential authors. The following section presents empirical data from German studies which shows that the rapid expansion of digital media is leading to a marked diminution of the role of the classical print media. The article concludes with observations on the threats that these developments pose for the traditional role of the public sphere in discursive opinion and will formation in democracies.
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