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Series:   Elements in Politics and Communication

Digital Transformations of the Public Arena

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2021

Andreas Jungherr  and
Ralph Schroeder
Andreas Jungherr
Affiliation:
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany
Ralph Schroeder
Affiliation:
University of Oxford

Summary

Digital technologies have changed the public arena, but there is little scholarly consensus about how they have done so. This Element lays out a new framework for the digitally mediated public arena by identifying structural changes and continuities with the pre-digital era. It examines three country cases – the United States, Germany, and China. In these countries and elsewhere, the emergence of new infrastructures such as search engines and social media platforms increasingly mediate and govern the visibility and reach of information, and thus reconfigure the transmission belt between citizens and political elites. This shift requires a rethinking of the workings and dysfunctions of the contemporary public arena and ways to improve it.
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public arenapolitical communicationsociologyconflictgeopolitics
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Series: Elements in Politics and Communication
Online ISBN: 9781009064484
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 27 January 2022

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