Digital Transformations of the Public Arena

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.

List 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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Andreas Jungherr, Andreas (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jungherr, Andreas (Otto-Friedrich-Universitat Bamb Jungherr, Jungherr Andreas, Ralph Schroeder, Schroeder Ralph
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781009065542
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0906554-2
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Politics and Communication
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Germany, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, Politics and government