The global public sphere : public communication in the age of reflective interdependence

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-2
Number of pages2
JournalJournal of Sociology
Volume52
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016

Keywords

  • book reviews
  • communication

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