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Mass-media și sfera publică
Mass Media and the Public Sphere

Author(s): George Bondor
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fundaţia »Societatea Civilă« (FSC)
Keywords: mass media; public sphere; corporate power; democracy; Habermas

Summary/Abstract: The main intention of this paper is to identify some pathologies of the Romanian public sphere, as they can be viewed in the mass media system. We use the Habermasian concept of the public sphere and we argue that the freedom of communicative action in the public sphere do not derive automatically from the existence of the free media market.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 155
  • Page Range: 71-74
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Romanian