MDSA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Joseph Howe, The Canadian Press, Critical Role
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Week 5: lecture #5 tuesday, february 03, 2015. Took months for a story to be published back in 1793. Today we can just go on google and get news immediately. Media profoundly affects our sense of time and place. We forget about it w/i 2 days. Joseph howe defended himself in court for publishing a scathing critique of halifax police and magistrates in his newspaper the nova scotian. Jury acquitted him contrary to the advice of the judge. Howe was later elected to the provincial legislature. Canada behind due to smaller population and etc. The structural transformation of the public sphere (1962); published in english 1989. Ffentlichkeit publicity, in the general sense of making public . Public opinion (as concept) in french, 1750. Habermas wrote extensively on the concept of the public sphere, using accounts of dialogues that took place in coffee houses in 18th century england.
