Monday, January 14, 2008

Baoill's Analysis of Habermas' Public Sphere


"Andrew Ó Baoill is a doctoral student in the
Institute of Communications Research at the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.


His research focuses
on the involvement
of the public in political and social
action and
in particular on
participatory media forms."

Baoill, Andrew Ó. "Conceptualizing the Weblog: Understanding What It Is In Order To Imagine What It Can Be." Interfacings: A Journal of Contemporary Media Studies. 8 Feb. 2008. 15 Jan 2008 <http://www.comm.
uiuc.edu/icr/interfacings/OBaoillWeblogs020805.pdf
>.

Baoill defines the public sphere as "places and situations in which people meet to discuss matters of public concern".



According to Baoill, Habermas identifies three domains of the public sphere:

1. The Legal/Political domain

2. The Art/Culture domain

3. The Science/Technology domain


Baoill, Andrew Ó. "Weblogs and the Public Sphere." Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs. 11 Jan. 2008 <http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/weblogs_and_
the_public_sphere.html
>.









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