The Virtual Transformation of the Public Sphere: Knowledge, Politics, Identity (Critical Interventions in Theory and Praxis) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138660248 ISBN 13: 9781138660243

Publisher: Routledge India, 2016

Synopsis

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 Jürgen 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.

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About the Author

Gaurav Desai is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University, New Orleans.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge India
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138660248
• ISBN 13: 9781138660243
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 316
• Editor: Desai Gaurav