The Recipe for Ideal Public Sphere in Contemporary World Instruction: The maximum word length is 2000 words. Please use APA Style for your references
Question: What do you see as the ‘recipe’ for an ideal public sphere in the contemporary world?
What are the essential elements that need to be in place to meet your vision of the best, most effective kind of public sphere? Develop your account with reference to public sphere theorists, and also make illustrate and develop your argument via at least one case study.
Theories to use to support the argument:
Craig Calhoun, ‘Introduction: Habermas and the Public Sphere’ (1992) in his Habermas & the Public Sphere (1992)
Recipe for Ideal Public Sphere in Contemporary World Sources of Reference
Harvard Berkman Klein Centre discussion on ‘Power & Participation in the Networked Public Sphere’ (2016)
Stephen Coleman & Karen Ross, chapter 1, ‘Imagining the Public’, in their The Media the Public (2010)
Argument – Habermas’s theory of Public sphere is impractical – doesn’t work in today’s world, what I see as the ‘recipe’ for an ideal public sphere is what Stephen Coleman Karen Ross proposed in their “Imagine the Public”
Answer: The public as social actor – please quote this part of the attachment
Recipe for Ideal Public Sphere in Contemporary World and the Use of Digital Media
Also mention the use of digital media as an important element to influence public sphere nowadays
Stefania Milan 2015 When Algorithms Shape Collective Action: Social Media and the Dynamics of Cloud Protesting, Social Media + Society
The Virtual Sphere 2.0: The Internet, the Public Sphere and beyond Other references to use:
Stephen Coleman & Karen Ross, chapter 1, ‘Imagining the Public’, in their The Media the Public (2010)
Lunt, P., & Livingstone, S. (2013). Media studies’ fascination with the concept of the public sphere: critical reflections and emerging debates. Media, Culture & Society, 35(1), 87–96.