Tag Archives: Habermas

AR; Mind the gap

Posted on March 21, 2011 by a.

I’ve been reading about various models of democracy lately, and started to wonder about alternatives to the threefold distinction between the ideal types of liberal individualist, republican and deliberative models. This typology seems to have gained quite a bit of … Continue reading →

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AR; Three models of democratic communication

Posted on November 29, 2010 by a.

Measuring the deliberative qualities of online instances of discussion is good – but the framework of measurement could be expanded, so that “instead of discarding non-deliberative posts as conceptual detritus, the framework would allow them to be contextualized alongside deliberative … Continue reading →

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Operationalizing deliberation

Posted on October 7, 2009 by a.

I’ve been, for some time, working on conceptualizing and operationalizing “deliberation” – after all, this is what I’ll look for in analysing the discussions on social news websites. Janssen and Kies (2005) offer a comprehensive rundown on previous attempts at … Continue reading →

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AR; Against Deliberation

Posted on September 23, 2009 by a.

…so is the title of an essay by Lynn M. Sanders, originally published in 1997 in Political Theory. (No link this time.) What is this about? Well, deliberation, says Sanders, is perhaps too often regarded as some kind of panacea … Continue reading →

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Correspondence – reflections on Dimitra Milioni’s article

Posted on June 4, 2009 by a.

What follows below is some reflections on Dimitra L. Milioni‘s recent article “Probing the online counterpublic sphere: the case of Indymedia Athens”, published in Media, Culture & Society. It’s long(ish). You’ve been warned.

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Correspondence –

Posted on April 27, 2009 by a.

– or in fact just an exchange of e-mails with my supervisor Tarmo Malmberg. Once again, this is as much of a reminder for myself as it is anything else. “Dear András, […] On the basis of your presentation on … Continue reading →

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In the defense of Habermas

Posted on February 18, 2009 by a.

I’m at the moment enrolled in a web course – run by the University of Tampere -, called “Current issues in Communication Studies: Perspectives on Democracy and Citizenship.” One of the tasks during this course has been to comment on … Continue reading →

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“Weak” vs “arranged” publics

Posted on June 2, 2008 by a.

This is probably the first time I have to emphasize the blog-like nature of this blog, however excuse-like this may sound. The thing is, I have been thinking about a problem pretty much all last week, and by now I … Continue reading →

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A great blog on citizen journalism

Posted on May 21, 2008 by a.

Axel Bruns from the Queensland University of Technology runs an excellent blog on matters related to citizen journalism (and to blogs in particular). He just posted an entry about the publication of a couple of new articles, one of which … Continue reading →

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