The Virtual Transformation of the Public Sphere

Knowledge, Politics, Identity
Herausgeber: Desai, Gaurav

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how new media technologies such as e-mails, online forums, blogs and social networking sites have helped shape new forms of public spheres. Offering new readings of Jürgen Habermas's notion of the public sphere, scholars from diverse disciplines interrogate the power and possibilities of new media in creating and disseminating public information; changing human communication at the interpersonal, institutional and societal levels; and affecting our self-fashioning as private and public individuals. Beginning with philosophical approaches to the subject, the book goes on to explore the innovative deployment of new media in areas as diverse as politics, social activism, piracy, sexuality, ethnic identity and education. The book will immensely interest those in media, culture and gender studies, philosophy, political science, sociology and anthropology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780415811712
• ISBN-10: 0415811716
• Artikelnr.: 36272115

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 Sphere: Media's Role in the
Growth of Learning Pankaj Roy. Bibliography. About the Editor. Notes on
Contributors. Index