Social Media and the Digital Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
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2022
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Staab, Philipp
Thiel, Thorsten
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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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digital capitalism \ Jürgen Habermas \ public sphere \ social media \ structural transformation
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Staab, P., & Thiel, T. (2022). Social Media and the Digital Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. Theory, Culture & Society, 39(4), 129–143. https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764221103527