Slashdot and the public sphere

September 8th, 2000 | by aobaoill |

Jurgen Habermas’s theory of the public sphere provides a model of idealised democratic debate. I analyse the model, and use it to examine Slashdot, a popular Web site, as an actualisation of public space.

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