Resilience of Public Spheres in a Global Health Crisis
Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic disrupted “normal” modes of public sphere functioning and activated an experimental mode of coping, reinventing forms of publicness and communicative exchanges. We conceptualize the social responses triggered by the crisis as particular forms of public sphere resilience and assess the role of digitalisation and digital spaces in the emergence of distinct modes and dynamics of resilience. Four areas of enhanced public sphere experimentation are the basis of our conceptualisation: political consumerism, digital modes of solidarity, political protest mobilisation, and news consumption. We discuss overarching features of public sphere resilience across societal sub-spheres and highlight the dynamics and hybridities which structure the emerging public spaces. Resilience practices are accompanied by dynamics of politicisation and depoliticisation coupled with shifting boundaries of publicness and privateness. Our observations likewise reveal the dynamic interplay be
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource, 29 S.
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Englisch
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Erstveröffentlichung
begutachtet
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Weizenbaum Series ; Bd. 11
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
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2020
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Veröffentlichung
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Berlin
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Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society - The German Internet Institute
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2020
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Trenz, Hans-Jörg
Heft, Annett
Vaughan, Michael
Pfetsch, Barbara
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Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society - The German Internet Institute
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10.34669/wi.ws/11
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022091208151105785562
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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15.08.2025, 07:35 MESZ
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Beteiligte
- Trenz, Hans-Jörg
- Heft, Annett
- Vaughan, Michael
- Pfetsch, Barbara
- Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society - The German Internet Institute
- SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
Entstanden
- 2020