SOC356Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Public Sphere, Grassroots Democracy, Public Space
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Key message of last week; the differences in innovative technology between industrial and info societies. Public sphere: people are supposed to discuss items with each other in a certain space. Or will the government just give money to the service. May not provide enough public funding for the broadcasters. Ex/ cbc no longer does documentaries: technical problems; With digitization there are many more channels, hurts public broadcasters, many rivals: changes in public spheres. Unified public sphere with state boundary; public life in a developing and complex mosaic of diff sized, overlapping and interconnected communicative public spheres. Different levels: (doesn"t have to be coffee shops) Micro-public spheres; sub nation state level (community center etc) Meso-public spheres; nation state level (online discussions beyond country borders, or within regions) Macro-public sphere; supranational/global level (could be provided by global media: public sphere is connections between people, people can talk about global issues locally.
