CO SCI 136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Ideal Speech Situation, Hashtag Activism, Slacktivism
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Central concepts here are the online public sphere, communicative capitalism, and slacktivism or hashtag activism. Seminar question: it is not because a text has been published that it is also good. Poor"s article, for example, is rather poor" in my view. Kahler (2009): power in networks and power of networks. Castells (2007): media: social space where power is decided, historical shift of the public sphere from the institutional realm to the new. Mass self-communication. communication space: but battle over this space: surveillance, corporate take-overs, legal limitations (piracy) mis/disinformation, etc. Sphere between private sphere (individuals) and state authority. Can be partially online as well as offline. If we ever got close to this idea, it was here: but then commercialization happened and we went back to re-feudalization. Mouffe (1999): consensus as ideal outcome: society is driven by constant conflict. Internet: modest impact on the changing functioning of democracy: example: margolis & resnick (2014): extension of online.
