COMM 2102 Lecture : COMM mar 19 les 10.doc
11 Apr 2012
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For example we can talk about the voting public (group of people that come together for a particular purpose to elect a government). We can think about the viewing public a group of people who come together at the same time to watch the same show. We can also think about understanding the public by understanding its opposite the private: we use things like screen bloggers to prevent people from entering our private space. Even in public places we privatize ourselves by plugging in our ear buds, we post comments as anonymous because we want to communicate without compromise. All of these examples here prove that our notion of public is a way of grouping and separating: today focuses on a particular notion on public based on work of habermas. 1960, he wrote a piece called the structural transformation of the public sphere.
