The Virtual Transformation of the Public Sphere (eBook, PDF)

Knowledge, Politics, Identity
Redaktion: Desai, Gaurav

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays in the volume re-examine the debate centred on the Habermasian notion of the public sphere and ask whether the structural transformations of the public sphere by new media technologies are an indication of a degenerate consumerist society, or that of a more egalitarian and democratic public culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000059106
• Artikelnr.: 60641509

Autorenporträt

Gaurav Desai is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University, New Orleans.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Introduction: The Virtual Transformation of the Public
Sphere Gaurav Desai. 1. The Right to Look Nicholas Mirzoeff 2. Democracy,
the Public Sphere, and Problems of Self-reflexivity R. Radhakrishnan 3. On
the Market Colonization of the Virtual Public Sphere Lewis R. Gordon 4.
Cyberspace and Post-modern Democracy: A Critique of the Habermasian Notion
of the Public Sphere K. M. Johnson 5. Cybernecology: Liberation Aesthetics
and the Public Sphere Timothy Allen Jackson 6. The Ever-expanding Sphere of
Cybercommunities Sukhdeep Ghuman 7. The Public Sphere: Restitution for the
Internet James J. Winchester 8. Piracy as Tactics: Re-imagining Creativity
as Forms of Access Aruni Mahapatra 9. The Internet as a Public Sphere: The
Emergence of New Forms of Politics in India Esha Sen Madhavan 10. Virtual
Activism, Real Repercussions: How Facebook Impacts the Public Sphere Hiba
Aleem 11. Negotiating Virtual Terrain: New Social Media and the Public
Intellectual Sumedha Iyer 12. Virtualization of the Politics of
Recognition: Lepcha Struggle for Recognition as PTG in Darjeeling Hills
(West Bengal) and Sikkim, India Padam Nepal 13. Identity and Virtual Spaces
among the Zo hnahthlak: Emergent Zo Cyberpolitics Anup Shekhar Chakraborty
14. The Public Spheres of Vicarious Fulfilments: Live Sex on the Internet
and the Performative Dynamics of Body and Sexuality Bini B. S. 15. Is the
New Media Erasing Boundaries or Erecting Barriers? Gay/Transgender vs.
Kothi/Aravani Sunita Manian 16. Anonymity and Online Interaction: A
Thematic (Dramaturgical) Perspective Mallika Vijaya Kumar and P. E. Thomas
17. Constructing New Mediated Knowledge in the Process of Writing for Life
Rich Rice 18. Changed Dimensions of the Public S