COMS 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Universal Design, Communicative Action, Body Politic

• School: McGill University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMS 230
• Professor: Cayley Sorochan

Document Summary

Contemporary examples of public assembly such as the united nations general. Assembly but also the occupy wall street general assembly. Streets can be another site of the public sphere. Public spaces are spaces that are open and accessible. The public sphere is seen as a site or place where democracy happens constituted by communication as its characteristic activity. With normative guidelines or ideals for what democratic communication ought to be like. The ancient public sphere: ancient greece, participating in the public sphere was necessary. The public was associated with the city and leisure and politics and was dehined in contrast with the private realm dehined by the home. The public was idealized as a place where people can engage with others in the pursuit of wellbeing. The public sphere was idealized a lot in ancient greece that people"s existence outside of this realm was considered almost less than human.