tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8259704.post114215011651490772..comments2023-03-20T02:38:22.109+11:00Comments on Habermasian Reflections: Habermas, intellectuals and the internetAli Rizvihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18007625357436861947noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8259704.post-1153926922314404522006-07-27T01:15:00.000+10:002006-07-27T01:15:00.000+10:00Is this really consistant with Habermas's concepti...Is this really consistant with Habermas's conception of the public sphere? <BR/><BR/>As Thomas McCarthy notes: "Independent public forums, distinct from both the economic system and the state administration, having their locus rather in voluntary associations, social movements, and other networks and processes of communication in civil society - including the mass media - are for Habermas the basis of popular sovereignty." (49)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8259704.post-1152514832017164022006-07-10T17:00:00.000+10:002006-07-10T17:00:00.000+10:00I think Habermas is taking a pretty Eurocentric vi...I think Habermas is taking a pretty Eurocentric view on this one. He fails to consider the possibility that the internet affords the left a chance at countering the "foxification" of public discourse in the mainstream media. Contrast Habermas' assesment with that of <A HREF="http://mondoweiss.observer.com/2006/07/how-the-internet-is-replacing-the-book.html" REL="nofollow">Philip Weiss</A>:<BR/><BR/>"Self-publishing on the web, whether through blogs or by posting articles in web-journals, is rapidly eclipsing traditional academic venues in its ability to serve the public and popularize knowledge.... If my relatively modest, country-specific site is having an impact, Juan Cole's is many times larger. He was getting a quarter million readers a month at the height of the Iraq war. Web-publishing and blogging is reconnecting academics to main-stream intellectual discourse."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8259704.post-1143502407729944292006-03-28T10:33:00.000+11:002006-03-28T10:33:00.000+11:00This is consistent with Habermas views about publi...This is consistent with Habermas views about public relations expressed in the 1950s. In short, anything that limits debate decreases the public sphere. <BR/><BR/>Along the same lines Gadamer (1994) said "It is opinion that suppresses questions... Only a person who has questions can have understanding." (pp. 364-367).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8259704.post-1142904746984787102006-03-21T12:32:00.000+11:002006-03-21T12:32:00.000+11:00This is really interesting. If you consider what q...This is really interesting. If you consider what quality of publication is on the internet and television, it seems that things are getting worse. If you consider this as the product of inclusiveness, aka, more ideas means more bad ideas while good ideas are smothered by the bad. It is the mass amounts that obscures what is worth looking at. It's really a tragedy. So Habermas is making a great point.Bryan Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12579749212422595097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8259704.post-1142414560762841822006-03-15T20:22:00.000+11:002006-03-15T20:22:00.000+11:00Piotr,thanks.aliPiotr,<BR/>thanks.<BR/>aliAli Rizvihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18007625357436861947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8259704.post-1142355291144272232006-03-15T03:54:00.000+11:002006-03-15T03:54:00.000+11:00Not strictly OT, but you may want to update your v...Not strictly OT, but you may want to update your video link (moved, so it is now 404) to http://tholian.sla.purdue.edu/phil-lit/events/habermas.cfm<BR/><BR/>And you can add the mms://volve.uib.no/LPlus_Test/habermas002.wmv<BR/>too that section, too.Piotr Koniecznyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17176515435484290423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8259704.post-1142187876428340422006-03-13T05:24:00.000+11:002006-03-13T05:24:00.000+11:00Gary Davis started a discussion of this 2 days ago...Gary Davis started a discussion of this 2 days ago: "<A HREF="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/habermas/message/1428" REL="nofollow">blogosphere got you down, Jürgen?</A>" Maybe that will continue.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com