Dialogue and representation : communication in the eletronic public sphere

Oblak Črnič, Tanja (author)

The Internet in many ways changed our established conceptions not only about space, time, and access, but also about publicness, activity and interaction. The interplay of these changes is clearly expressed in the idea of electronic public sphere, which itself depends heavily on the working of the dominant forms of communication. But it should be posed as a question rather than simply assumed whether new possibilities for participatory opinion formation come from interactive qualities of the Internet alone. As argued in this paper, cyberspace is constituted not only by interactive communication, but also by the forms of representation that are more similar to the elements of so-called mediated publicness, which originate from the process of normalisation of cyberspace. By approaching these issues through the conceptual framework of dialogue and representation, it is possible to reduce the complexity of cyberspace and thus to engage in a systematic analysis of the existing realms of public and political action.

• Language: English
• Keywords: public, Internet, space, politics
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2002
• Number of pages: Str. 7-22
• Numbering: Let. 9, št. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-75366
• UDC: 004.738.5
• ISSN on article: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 21244253
• Publication date in RUL: 21.12.2015

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Javnost
• Shortened title: Javnost
• Publisher: Taylor&Francis
• ISSN: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 40119808

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Dialog in reprezentacija: komuniciranje v elektronski javni sferi

Abstract

Internet je spremenil uveljavljena pojmovanja prostora, časa in dostopa, pa tudi javnosti, delovanja in interakcije. Vzajemna povezanost teh sprememb se izraža v ideji elektronske javne sfere, ki je hkrati močno odvisna od delovanja dominantnih oblik komuniciranja. Zastavlja se vprašanje, ali že same interaktivne lastnosti interneta porajajo nove možnosti za participativno oblikovanje mnenj. Avtorica zagovarja stališče, da kibernetskega prostora ne oblikuje zgolj interaktivno komuniciranje, ampak tudi oblike reprezentacije, ki so bolj podobne elementom "mediatizirane javnosti", ki izhajajo iz normalizacije kibernetskega prostora. S pomočjo pojmovnega okvira dialoga in reprezentacije je mogoče zmanjšati kompleksnost kibernetskega prostora in se lotiti sistematične analize javnosti in političnega delovanja.

• Keywords: javnost, Internet, prostor, politika