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Document Details : Title: Media Multiplication and Social Segmentation Author(s): KATZ, Elihu Journal: Ethical Perspectives Volume: 7 Issue: 2-3 Date: September 2000 Pages: 122-132 DOI: 10.2143/EP.7.2.503797 Abstract : By now, everybody has heard of the `bourgeois public sphere,' that moment in history when a rising merchant class felt empowered enough to deliberate public policy rationally and universalistically, and to transmit its conclusions to the powers-that-were with the expectation of being taken seriously. By academic standards Habermas's (1962/1989) thesis has become a household word, perhaps because it offers a nostalgic reminder of a lost utopia of participatory democracy, or because it offers hope of what yet might be — if we could only learn to translate the seventeenth century into the ostensibly compatible conditions of a modernity in which widespread education, universal suffrage and the new communications technologies would seem to invite such translation. |
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