A Private Sphere: Democracy in a Digital AgeISBN: 978-0-7456-4524-7
Hardcover
200 pages
August 2010, Polity
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- New volume in Polity’s highly successful Digital Media and Society series.
- Provides a major contribution to a hot topic in the field: how online digital media shape and are shaped by contemporary democracies.
- Questions how our understanding of distinctions between public and private changes in a digital context and explores the significance for theorising about the public sphere.
- Uses examples from blogging, online news, net-based activism, collaborative news filtering and online networking.
- Forces a major re-thinking of notions of contemporary political apathy.