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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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1. Digital Transformations of the Public Arena; 2. The Public Arena; A Definition; 3. Variations; 4. Tensions; 5. Areas of Contention; 6. The Public Arena: Conditions, Consequences, and Responsibilities; 7. Acknowledgments.

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 1/27/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781009065542, 978-1009065542
      ISBN10: 1009065548

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      1. Digital Transformations of the Public Arena; 2. The Public Arena; A Definition; 3. Variations; 4. Tensions; 5. Areas of Contention; 6. The Public Arena: Conditions, Consequences, and Responsibilities; 7. Acknowledgments.

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