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RECONCEPTUALIZING PUBLIC SPHERE IN THE DIGITAL ERA FROM HABERMAS PUBLIC SPHERE TO DIGITALLY NETWORKED PUBLIC SPHERE

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gdpmr.2022(V-I).20      10.31703/gdpmr.2022(V-I).20      Published : Mar 2022

Re-Conceptualizing Public Sphere in the Digital Era: From Habermas' Public Sphere to Digitally Networked Public Sphere

Abstract

    Technological networks have established a new social morphology of the modern world. The paper provides an understanding of the notion of the networked public sphere by examining all the seminal notions to theorize the ‘Networked Public Sphere’. The paper reflects that the boundaries between old and new media have been blurred and the new media technologies have established a hybrid environment in which there is a huge interplay between conventional media and new media. The paper concludes that the political use of social media among citizens in the networked public sphere helps to devise strategies to be engaged in online and offline political activities and generate a public discourse among them that influence the political domains of the society.

    Public Sphere, Social Media, Political Activism, Networked Public Sphere

    (1) Qasim Mahmood
    Assistant Professor, Department of Mass Communication, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (2) Zarmina Gull
    Lecturer, Department of Mass Communication, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (3) Rao Nadeem Alam
    Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Mahmood, Q., Gull, Z., & Alam, R. N. (2022). Re-Conceptualizing Public Sphere in the Digital Era: From Habermas' Public Sphere to Digitally Networked Public Sphere. Global Digital & Print Media Review, V(I), 206-214. https://doi.org/10.31703/gdpmr.2022(V-I).20

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Mahmood, Qasim, Zarmina Gull, and Rao Nadeem Alam. 2022. "Re-Conceptualizing Public Sphere in the Digital Era: From Habermas' Public Sphere to Digitally Networked Public Sphere." Global Digital & Print Media Review, V (I): 206-214 doi: 10.31703/gdpmr.2022(V-I).20

HARVARD

    HARVARD : MAHMOOD, Q., GULL, Z. & ALAM, R. N. 2022. Re-Conceptualizing Public Sphere in the Digital Era: From Habermas' Public Sphere to Digitally Networked Public Sphere. Global Digital & Print Media Review, V, 206-214.

MHRA

    MHRA : Mahmood, Qasim, Zarmina Gull, and Rao Nadeem Alam. 2022. "Re-Conceptualizing Public Sphere in the Digital Era: From Habermas' Public Sphere to Digitally Networked Public Sphere." Global Digital & Print Media Review, V: 206-214

MLA

    MLA : Mahmood, Qasim, Zarmina Gull, and Rao Nadeem Alam. "Re-Conceptualizing Public Sphere in the Digital Era: From Habermas' Public Sphere to Digitally Networked Public Sphere." Global Digital & Print Media Review, V.I (2022): 206-214 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Mahmood, Qasim, Gull, Zarmina, and Alam, Rao Nadeem (2022), "Re-Conceptualizing Public Sphere in the Digital Era: From Habermas' Public Sphere to Digitally Networked Public Sphere", Global Digital & Print Media Review, V (I), 206-214

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Mahmood, Qasim, Zarmina Gull, and Rao Nadeem Alam. "Re-Conceptualizing Public Sphere in the Digital Era: From Habermas' Public Sphere to Digitally Networked Public Sphere." Global Digital & Print Media Review V, no. I (2022): 206-214. https://doi.org/10.31703/gdpmr.2022(V-I).20