Artikel
Social Media and the Digital Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
This article explores the question of how to understand social media following the Habermasian theory of the structural transformation of the public sphere. We argue for a return to political-economic fundamentals as the basis for analysing the public sphere and seek to establish a characteristic connection between digital-behavioural control and singularised audiences in the context of proprietary markets. In the digital constellation, it is less a matter of immobilising the citizen as a consumer but rather of their political activation – albeit in conditions under which commercial interests have primacy: privatisation without privatism.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: Theory, Culture & Society ; ISSN: 1460-3616 ; Volume: 39 ; Year: 2022 ; Issue: 4 ; Pages: 129-143 ; Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
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Politik
- Subject
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digital capitalism
Jürgen Habermas
public sphere
social media
structural transformation
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Staab, Philipp
Thiel, Thorsten
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Veröffentlichung
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Sage
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Thousand Oaks, CA
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2022
- DOI
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doi:10.1177/02632764221103527
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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- Thiel, Thorsten
- Sage
Time of origin
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