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The public sphere

migration of normative principles and the digital construction of transnational ethics

Martin Gak

pp. 11-33

Abstract

Martin Gak examines the substantive content and fluid transformation of the public sphere in digital networks. He argues that the public sphere is not synonymous with its content, and therefore it is a mistake to suppose that the public sphere entails a moral property. Rather, the public sphere and the expanding capacity to foster care and reasons can host the most amenable as well as the most abominable sociocultural and political propositions and alignments. In fact, under some conditions the erosion of the public sphere may be, quite simply, desirable.

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Karatzogianni Athina, Nguyen Dennis, Serafinelli Elisa (2016) The digital transformation of the public sphere: conflict, migration, crisis and culture in digital networks. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 11-33

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-50456-2_2

Full citation:

Gak Martin (2016) „The public sphere: migration of normative principles and the digital construction of transnational ethics“, In: A. Karatzogianni, D. Nguyen & E. Serafinelli (eds.), The digital transformation of the public sphere, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 11–33.