Inside the Swarms: Personalization, Gamification, and the Networked Public Sphere

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-56
Author(s):  
Thomas Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Networked Public Sphere

scholarly journals Social Media and Youth’s Political Activism: Emergence of a Networked Public Sphere in Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 04 (02) ◽  
pp. 64-82
Author(s):  
Dr. Qasim Mahmood ◽  
Dr. Kasim Sharif ◽  
Zarmina Gull
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Networked Public Sphere ◽  
Politically Active

Social media has become a central component of modern society and politics around the world including Pakistan. The paper attempts to examine the influence of political activism among social media-savvy youth in highlighting the political issues of Pakistan. This paper examines how Pakistani youth’s political activism via social media gives rise to an emergent-networked public sphere. A survey questionnaire was distributed to 403-university students aged 18-29 to examine their social media use and political engagement. Findings of the survey show that public discourse on social media, driven by Pakistan’s networked youth, is a growing force that political players and pundits must reckon with. The paper concludes that politically active youth make use of social media to discuss political issues, highlight problems besetting the country, which generates a public discourse, put pressure on government and politicians to take action that ultimately bears influence upon politics and governance in Pakistan.

The Rise of a Networked Public Sphere

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-73
Author(s):  
Debashis ‘Deb' Aikat
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Cultural Origins ◽  
Networked Public Sphere

The world's largest democracy with a population of over 1.27 billion people, India is home to a burgeoning media landscape that encompasses a motley mix of traditional and contemporary media. Drawing from the theoretical framework of the networked public sphere, this extensive case study focuses on the role of social media in India's media landscape. Results indicate that new social media entities complement traditional media forms to inform, educate, connect, and entertain people from diverse social, ethnic, religious, and cultural origins. The author concludes that social media enable Indian citizens to actively deliberate issues and ideas, increase their civic engagement and citizen participation, and thus enrich India's democratic society.

The Networked Public Sphere

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis A. Friedland ◽  
Thomas Hove ◽  
Hernando Rojas
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Networked Public Sphere

scholarly journals Mapping the Australian Networked Public Sphere

2010 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Bruns ◽  
Jean Burgess ◽  
Tim Highfield ◽  
Lars Kirchhoff ◽  
Thomas Nicolai
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Networked Public Sphere

Five theses on technoliberalism and the networked public sphere

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damien Smith Pfister ◽  
Misti Yang
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Technical Expertise ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Democratic Deliberation ◽  
Technology Firms ◽  
Networked Public Sphere ◽  
Change Culture ◽  
Computational Technology

How have digital technologies affected the market logics and economization that constitute the underlying governing rationality of neoliberalism? This essay unfurls five theses that further develop the concept of technoliberalism, the intensification of neoliberalism through computational technology, in the context of the networked public sphere: (1) technoliberalism names the dominant governing rationality in cultures where digital computation technology suffuses everyday life; (2) technoliberalism replaces public, democratically accountable power with the private, technical expertise of digital technology firms; (3) technoliberalism focuses on contriving technical systems to change culture at the expense of democratic argument and deliberation; (4) technoliberalism intensifies the commodification of attention, resulting in undemocratic forms of “noopower”; and (5) technoliberalism standardizes subjectivities through grammatization. Each thesis complicates the prospects of democratic deliberation in the networked public sphere and articulates lines of communication research necessary for keeping democratic practices vibrant.

As the Pirates Become CEOs: The Closing of the Open Internet

Daedalus ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 145 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeynep Tufekci
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Network Effects ◽  
Computational Social Science ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Public ◽  
Computational Inference ◽  
Online Experience ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Networked Public Sphere

The early Internet witnessed the flourishing of a digitally networked public sphere in which many people, including dissidents who had little to no access to mass media, found a voice as well as a place to connect with one another. As the Internet matures, its initial decentralized form has been increasingly replaced by a small number of ad-financed platforms, such as Facebook and Google, which structure the online experience of billions of people. These platforms often design, control, influence, and “optimize” the user experience according to their own internal values and priorities, sometimes using emergent methods such as algorithmic filtering and computational inference of private traits from computational social science. The shift to a small number of controlling platforms stems from a variety of dynamics, including network effects and the attractions of easier-to-use, closed platforms. This article considers these developments and their consequences for the vitality of the public sphere.

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