The public sphere in the twilight zone of publicness

Splichal, Slavko (author)

The article discusses the reasons and conditions for the rise and fall of the popularity of the public sphere concept in scholarly discourse in four parts. The first part examines the peculiar circumstances of the emergence of the concept of the public sphere, and its rapid and widespread adoption in the social sciences. The second part discusses the complexity of the concept “Öffentlichkeit” and its English proxy “the public sphere,” and the contemporary critique of its ideological predispositions. The third part focuses on the liberalization and (operational) banalization of the concept. The final part suggests ways in which social scientists could respond critically to the challenges outlined earlier and reintegrate publicness, the public, and the public sphere into the analysis.

• Language: English
• Keywords: public sphere, Öffentlichkeit, publicness, public opinion, the public
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: Str. 198-215
• Numbering: Vol. 37, iss. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-136346
• UDC: 659.3
• ISSN on article: 0267-3231
• DOI: 10.1177/02673231211061490
• COBISS.SI-ID: 94034435
• Publication date in RUL: 25.04.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: European journal of communication
• Shortened title: Eur. j. commun.
• Publisher: SAGE
• ISSN: 0267-3231
• COBISS.SI-ID: 25428224

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: javnost, javno mnenje

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P5-0051
• Name: Množični mediji, javna sfera in družbene spremembe

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: N5-0086
• Name: Novi načini in globalni vzorci (re)produkcije spletnih novic