Abstract
Book review: In this book Ingrid Volker unfolds a conceptual framework for understanding the contemporary global public sphere of communication – a task that she herself admits is a challenging one. Volker’s book aims to address theoretical ‘blind spots’ in globalization and network conceptions of the public sphere within a new historical epoch of globalized communication. To this end, Volker engages with a wide range of scholarship across the disciplines of media and communications, sociology and political science, to develop a conceptual framework which is clearly grounded in a recontextualization of Jürgen Habermas’s ‘public sphere’ and informed by Kant and Hegel’s understanding of public life.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-2 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Journal of Sociology |
Volume | 52 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- book reviews
- communication