Detail Book Review: Inka Salovaara-Moring (ed.), Manufacturing Europe: Spaces of Democracy, Diversity and Communication, Nordicom: University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, 2008; 256 pp.: SEK 280/30.00   Oleh:  Musolff, Andreas Jenis: Article from Article Dalam koleksi: European Journal of Communication vol. 25 no. 3 (2010), page 300-302. Topik: Democracy; Diversity and Communication Fulltext: 300.full.pdf (75.41KB) Isi artikel This volume presents results from a research project on ‘The European Public Sphere(s): Uniting or Dividing?’, which was funded and organized by the Academy of Finland. It comprises 14 contributions by researchers based mainly in Scandinavia but also in Estonia, Britain, Ireland and the Netherlands. Despite its wide range of topics, the book has a high degree of coherence, as most contributions refer to the history of debates about Habermas’s concept of the ‘public sphere’, its critique and development in theories of social networks and of the public as a system of interacting discourses that inform semiautonomous sub-spheres or ‘sphericules’ (see Gitlin, 1998). The tension between the normative, ‘ideal-type’ concept of the public sphere as an open (and level) field of communicative exchange between citizens and rulers, on the one hand, and the empirical findings that this ideal is not only not realized but often does not even constitute a meaningful objective for public actors (politicians, media and institutions of various kinds), on the other hand, provides a fertile reference point for the discussion of various approaches to the issue of a European public sphere that transcends national publics. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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