...Emerson Palmieri Purpose The objective of this work is to explore possible relationships of theoretical affinity that the concept of public sphere (understood in its original German formulation: Öffentlichkeit) can establish with Luhmann’s concepts of observation and differentiation. In this way...

... in the digital age that challenges the internal consistency of the concept, independently from any further epistemological or ontological considerations. Privacy Social change Digital transformation Public sphere Habermas Spatial turn Albrecht Fritzsche can be contacted...

... appealing it may be to any specific investor, but by providing a forum for average opinion on average opinion about such products to arise. In the economy, the financial market is a “public sphere” where, similarly to the newspaper beauty contest competition, abstraction from first-order observation...

...José J. Blanco Purpose The purpose of this study is to rethink the issue of publicity from a cross-cultural and evolutionary perspective. Design/methodology/approach Assuming that there is a dominant paradigm in the studies of the public sphere centered on Habermas’ ideas, media theory...

... 1997 Culture Globalization Postmodernism Public sphere Sociocybernetics Those sociologists who still dare to attempt the, by now, outdated and even slightly suspicious task of capturing the Zeitgeist have given it an array of different names: late modernity, risk society...