Lurkers and the Fantasy of Persuasion in an Online Cultural Public Sphere

2017 ◽  
pp. 223-241
Author(s):  
Jakob Svensson
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Cultural Public Sphere

British Identity and ‘The People's Princess’

2000 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim McGuigan
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
General Consideration ◽  
Democratic Participation ◽  
Affective Communication ◽  
British Identity ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Symbolic Space ◽  
Cultural Public Sphere ◽  
Contested Meanings

This article treats the popular response to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, as a manifestation of the cultural public sphere, by which is meant a symbolic space for affective communication and an emotional sense of democratic participation. The Diana phenomenon neither produced a ‘revolutionary moment’ nor, however, was it insignificant. Rather, it represented a vehicle for public debate on British identity, the role of the monarchy and, more diffusely, the conduct of personal relations. New Labour and feminist appropriations of Diana are examined in detail and related to a general consideration of the diverse and contested meanings of her life and death.

scholarly journals The Cultural Public Sphere

2005 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 427-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim McGuigan
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Cultural Public Sphere

National Government and the Cultural Public Sphere

1998 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim McGuigan
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
National Government ◽  
New Labour ◽  
First Year ◽  
Marketing Model ◽  
Cultural Public Sphere ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Democratic Principles

This article introduces the concept of the cultural public sphere to examine public debate around national government policy in the cultural field when the nation-state is said to be of diminishing significance. The election of New Labour in Britain and the cultural politics of its first six months in office are taken as a case study. A distinction is made between cultural policy proper and cultural policy as display. New Labour is especially notable for its symbolic politics and manipulation of cultural policy as display, much more so than its program for cultural policy proper, which remained little developed during the first year of office. The New Labour project is nothing less than a redefinition of Britishness — largely reduced, however, to the ‘rebranding’ of Britain as a ‘Young Nation’ or ‘Cool Britannia’, in the wake of Thatcherism's lengthy period of ‘regressive modernisation’. The May 1997 general election itself, the death and funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales and intense controversy over the New Millennium Experience all occurred within the first six months of Labour government. The article analyses the relations between these events and concludes that the New Labour project, symbolised by the Millennium Dome, articulates a national hubris that reproduces Britain's historical problem of coming to terms with its declining significance in the world. New Labour's virtual politics and its adherence to an accentuated public relations and marketing model of politics are at odds with the democratic principles of the public sphere in general, illustrated in the article by the particular operations and limitations of the cultural public sphere.

scholarly journals Cultural Public Sphere: Tracking the Yogyakarta City Policy Agenda through the #JogjaOraDidol Hashtag on Twitter

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Ujang Fahmi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Soft Data ◽  
The Real ◽  
Cultural Public Sphere ◽  
The Media

Instead of studying the virtual space using the Political Public Sphere concept, this study adopts the Literary Public Sphere point of view to examine and narrate the nature of a Cultural Public Sphere in social media. The researchers see interactivity in social media as an articulation of expression involving emotions and aesthetics (affective communication). Using the mixed method of Topic Modelling, Social Network Analysis (SNA), and Discourse Analysis in the case of the presence of the #JogjaOraDidol hashtag in Twitter, this study conclude that the Cultural Public Sphere has three dimensions of Public Sphere as introduced by Dahlgren (2005). The dynamic of inclusivity for anyone to express themselves and to engage in public issues discussions indicates that space is inclusive not only because of the technical support of the media but also because of the commitment of its users (structural dimension). The emergence of three virtual communities (fans, artists and activists) that develop a collective identity represents a subset of the real local population and demonstrates the ideal role taking of the representational aspect of Public Sphere. The interactional one is indicated by the discourse constructed using reflexive but straightforward symbols represent the interaction between users and the meaning that users do to the contents of the media used. Meanwhile, the real action show of the discourse develops virtually does not entrap the user in pseudo-empowerment. As an implication, using specific parameter, notably the hashtag identifies a social movement, policymakers can use data from social media in the agenda-setting process. Additionally, in the context of #JogjaOraDidol, soft data can also be used to evaluate the moratorium policy of granting the hotel's construction permit.

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