Archive: public sphere

• When Private-Public Speech Becomes Public-Public Speech

  By Greg Boone October 18, 2012

  I woke up this past Sunday to a post on Sulia about a Redditor being exposed by Gawker's Adrian Chen. The user Chen exposed, 'violentacrez,' was highly connected in the Reddit volunteer community and

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: doxing, privacy, public sphere, reddit, violentacrez

• Two-Step Tweets: Teaching an Old Framework New Tricks

  By jhubanks@gmail.com November 14, 2011

  As media effects scholarship has evolved over the decades, media has always been understood to perform an important and influential function in society. Questions of whom media influence, with what e

  Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog Tags: comm theory, communication theory, culture industry, facebook, hypodermic model, identity, influence, lasswell, media studies, occupy oakland, Occupy Wall Street, online influence, opinion makers, political communication, politics, public sphere, social media, technological determination, technology, tweets, twitter, two-step flow

• Common Knowledge and Public Dialogue: When Everybody Knows that Everybody Knows

  By abc55@georgetown.edu March 24, 2011

  We have all probably experienced this phenomenon: something is going on and it’s no secret. Everybody knows and everybody knows that everybody knows, but nobody is (necessarily) talking about it, much less doing anything about it.

  Category: The Gnovis Blog Tags: Barack Obama, common knowledge, Constitutional questions, Defense of Marriage Act, Elihu Katz, Eric Holder, John Boehner, judicial system, public sphere