Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Communications - Journalism, Journalism Professions, grade: 1,7, University of Hamburg (IJK), course: Journalism and European Public Spheres, language: English, abstract: To what extent can the Internet in particular, as one form of network that delivers space for communication, fulfill the requirements of a public sphere?Measured against idealized concepts, online public spheres analyzed instudies that are presented in the essay, especially those of Slashdot.org and Digg.com, seem to be promising versions of deliberation space.