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E-book Cyber Public Sphere and Social Movements : Calling to Cyber Spaces

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A subject that should especially be discussed would be the near past, present and tomorrow of communication network technologies. Devel-oped communication network technologies have had significant effects on the public sphere with each new qualified communication device invented. The public sphere emphasized in 1962 by Jürgen Habermas and the defini-tions and theories of the public sphere that evolved around it broadened their borders through each new communication device, and in some cases, changed the existing borders. The mission of technology to "democratize" the society associated with mass communication tools in the 19th and 20th centuries, is now being dedicated to new media. For example, the defini-tion of Information Society, which emerged with prevalent usage of inter-net technology today and may be associated with the definition of the pubic sphere, was opened for debate as the Theory of Network Society with Castells’ suggestion. According to Castells, counter hegemony powers, for example, environmentalist movement, counter cultural movements and human rights organizations take part in activities within networks by com-bining what it local and what is global with the internet.4 This discourse by Castells overlaps with Habermas’s definition of the public sphere to some extent. With its Habermasian meaning, the idea of "public sphere" is an institutionalized discursive area of interaction where participants take part in discussions about their mutual issues. This space is one that is con-ceptually separate from the state; and in principle, it is where critical dis-courses are produced and distributed against the state ... a space for con-flict of ideas and debate5. An important point here is that Habermas de-fined the public sphere over locality, that is, each society has its own pub-lic sphere; Castells, on the other hand, described an activity on a global level, because the internet which is the most prevalent area of usage for communication network technologies provided speed up for the develop-ment of globalization. According to Bauman, "We are all on the move... Some of us do not need to go outside to travel: One can run from around on web pages in the speed of light, read messages from the furthest parts of the globe on computer screens and send messages... Space is no longer an obstacle; one second is enough to conquer it".6 Global prevalence of informatics tools, information transformation and distribution made the citizen no longer an object of a single public authority. While the citizen has private communal identity on one hand, they have an identity of a ter-ritorial state and an international identity on the other hand. The phenom-enon of international identity is as virtual as the information carried around, but at the same time, as real as the content of the same information.

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No. Panggil

003.5 COT c

Penerbit

Germany : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG., 2018

Deskripsi Fisik

132 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783845291260

Klasifikasi

003.5

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tactile text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Theory of Communication and Controll

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