Transnationalization of the Public Sphere and the Fate of the Public (Slavko Splichal)
	Quantity in Basket:none Code: 978-1-61289-036-4 Price:$65.00 Title: Transnationalization of the Public Sphere and the Fate of the Public Author(s): Slavko Splichal Publish Date: October 2011 Pages: 270 Category: Cloth
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Transformations of the original conceptualizations of the principle dimensions of publicness in some of the dominant streams of thought are discussed in view of the changing social, political, economic and technological considerations that could have influenced these reconceptualizations. The volume starts with the changing nature of “visibility” generated by publicity and its relation to the public and the private, then continues with the historical and conceptual changes its main generator—public discourse—has undergone in the period from print to the Internet era. The issues of the social nature of visibility and discursive publicity are central to the discussion of “correlation” between the public and the private sphere. Contents: PART I: THE EMERGENCE OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE IN SOCIAL THEORY THE UNIVERSE OF PUBLICNESS. The Rise and Decline of Publicness. Conceptual Burgeoning . . . And Revisionist Attempts. VISIBILITY, PUBLICITY, AND PRIVACY. Publicity versus Privacy. Private and Public Censorship. The Publicness of Silence. “New Publicity”—The End of Publicness? REFLEXIVE PUBLICNESS: RATIONALITY AND SURVEILLANCE. Rationality and Surveillance in the Classical Public Opinion Tradition. Public Discourse: Cooperation versus Antagonism. CIVIL SOCIETY, THE PUBLIC, AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE. Normativity and Social Criticism in Conceptualizing the Public (Sphere). Civil Society and the Public Sphere. Mass Media, the Public, and the Public Sphere. The Rise of the Internet and its Consequences for the Public Sphere. University—A Blind Spot in the Theories of the Public (Sphere). Did Public Opinion Polling Kill the Public? PART II: TOWARD A COSMOPOLITAN PUBLIC SPHERE. GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND TRANSNATIONALIZATION OF PUBLIC SPHERES. Challenges of Transnationalization and Transformations of the Public Sphere. The Public and Public Sphere in the Age of Global Governance. EUROPEANIZATION: REDEEMING PUBLICNESS IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION. Decentralization versus Hybridization of the Public Sphere. Strength and Inclusiveness of the Public Sphere. A European Public Sphere—Can We See It? Rebirth of the Public? References. Author Index. Subject Index.