The Virtual Transformation of the Public Sphere - Knowledge, Politics, Identity (Hardcover)

This book explores how new media technologies such as e-mails, online forums, blogs and social networking sites have helped shape new forms of public spheres. Offering new readings of Jurgen Habermas's notion of the public sphere, scholars from diverse disciplines interrogate the power and possibilities of new media in creating and disseminating public information; changing human communication at the interpersonal, institutional and societal levels; and affecting our self-fashioning as private and public individuals. Beginning with philosophical approaches to the subject, the book goes on to explore the innovative deployment of new media in areas as diverse as politics, social activism, piracy, sexuality, ethnic identity and education. The book will immensely interest those in media, culture and gender studies, philosophy, political science, sociology and anthropology.

General

Imprint:	Routledge India
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Critical Interventions in Theory and Praxis
Release date:	February 2013
First published:	2013
Editors:	Gaurav Desai
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	316
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-81171-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
LSN:	0-415-81171-6
Barcode:	9780415811712

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