... and citizens, because democracy is an unfinished project. Originality/value By situating the neutrality–social justice debate within broader political theory, this paper reveals its parallels with the tension between liberalism (neutrality) and state perfectionism (social justice). It further grounds...

...Fredrik Hanell Purpose How democracy is understood depends on the theoretical perspective applied. Even so, public library research often takes the concept of democracy for granted. This article explores how democracy is theoretically understood in recent research on public libraries...

... a market-driven framework. Fourth, political freedom, where libraries serve as platforms for participatory democracy, enabling citizens to take part in the management and development of their local libraries. Originality/value This paper provides insights into various perspectives on freedom within...

... profession magazines in a ten-year period is conducted, focusing on the problematizations of for all using the WPR approach: What’s the Problem Represented to be? Theories on public sphere and democracy frequently applied in Library and Information Science (LIS) are discussed in relation...

... investigated libraries’ legitimisation efforts across various dimensions, examining how they employ rhetoric and theories to maintain legitimacy amidst challenging circumstances. Findings Through this research process, five dimensions of public library legitimacy emerged; (1) Democracy, (2) Culture...

.../methodology/approach Five group interviews conducted with public librarians in southern Sweden are analyzed using a typology of four perspectives on democracy. Findings Two perspectives on democracy are commonly represented: social-liberal democracy, focusing on libraries as promoters of equality...

... and undermining their credibility” (Lazer et al., 2018 , p. 1094). Some emphasize the underlying epistemic “threat to knowledge and democracy” (Fallis and Mathiesen, 2019 , p. 16). That is, fake news undermines the trust (in news) that a democracy depends upon, calling into question any...

... with the security of employees and library users (Pedersen, 2020d). Public libraries Norway Library law Public debate Public sphere Civil sphere Activism Nordic model Freedom of speech Neutrality Librarianship Democracy Neutrality has traditionally been posited as one of the core values...

... inclusion. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Social division Inequality Social capital Democracy Public library Piketty (2014) analyzed the statistical data of several countries and found that economic inequality...

..., in that they have forgotten that Habermas' theory was about the evolution of democracy in Europe. Widdersheim and Koizumi (2020) , on their part, argue that their work is perfectly in line with Habermas' body of work, as they look beyond his initial theory and towards his other influential works on communication...

... of the credibility, empathic accessibility, and fundamental worth of our fellow democratic citizens. Librarians' obligation to protect and promote democracy, therefore, provides practitioners with a crucial justification for recommending diverse books to all readers, even (and perhaps especially) those who actively...

.... It also engages a unique set of empirical-theoretical students from another perspective in order to deepen and shift that research discourse. Public sphere Democracy Operationalism Law of the instrument John Buschman can be contacted at: john.buschman@shu.edu 15 06 2019 15 06...

... meetings. Few studies have empirically analyzed the role of libraries in upholding a democratic and sustainable public sphere. This study contributes in filling that gap. Public libraries Democracy Public sphere Citizenship information Community meeting place Social role of libraries...

...John Buschman Purpose Library and Information Science (LIS) has seen an explosion of responses to fake news in the aftermath of the 2016 US election, political in nature, eschewing “neutrality” supporting democracy. The purpose of this paper is to trace the definition of fake news, the challenges...

... to a more nuanced and discerning argument when ascribing a democratic role to libraries and activities related to information literacy. The connections between democracy and libraries as well as between citizenship and information literacy are analysed by using Mouffe’s agonistic pluralism. One...

...Stuart Hannabuss © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 --> Information policy Internet Democracy Once upon a time information lived in one corner and politics lived in another. This is no longer so: information has been politicised (and probably always was), while insights...

... in this new journal. It is indeed a curate's egg, with some original cross‐over analysis and perceptive commentary in the form of case‐study experience (including an informative piece on Australian e‐democracy), but also with some trite entries and a pompous review of what otherwise seems a useful book...