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- Title
Meinungsöffentlichkeiten Ein Idealtypus aktuell praktizierter Formen von Öffentlichkeiten.
- Authors
Förstl, Behzad
- Abstract
The public sphere has undergone a transformation in recent years. The vast body of literature attributes this latest structural transformation to the proliferation of social media in everyday life: since there has been a change in the media, there has been a structural transformation of the public sphere. This article, however, attributes the changes in currently practiced forms of the public sphere to altered broader social frameworks, which can subsumed under the term ‘late modernity’. Against the background of a social shift from the Logik des Allgemeinen to the Logik der Singularitäten, it is proposed to understand today’s public spheres as opinion publics: Currently practiced forms of public spheres are no longer formed along the lines of topics or issues, but rather along the lines of opinions. This insight opens up new perspectives on much-discussed aspects, such as filter bubbles or echo chambers, so that we must ultimately speak of a change in form rather than a change in structure of public spheres in late modernity.
- Subjects
LIQUID modernity; PUBLIC sphere; SOCIAL background; SOCIAL media; PUBLIC opinion
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie, 2022, Vol 13, Issue 1/2, p203
- ISSN
1869-3016
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3224/zpth.v13i1-2.12