By targeting monuments that celebrate historic figures who actively contributed to institutional racism and the oppression of marginalised peoples, Black Lives Matter and others have implicitly questioned the way collective...
The latest issue of WACC’s Media Development magazine examines the concept of public sphere, its role in promoting democracy and political accountability, and why principles of human rights and social...
Media Development 2021-3 DEMOCRATIZING THE PUBLIC SPHERE The “public sphere” is made up of overlapping influences, pressures, dominant and less dominant voices. It is also subject to technological change, marked most recently...
[caption id="attachment_37706" align="alignleft" width="190"] MD 2021/3[/caption] The World Bank notes that the public sphere “is an ideal of good and accountable governance. Its requisites are free flows of information, free expression,...
By Philip Lee Digital connectivity has transformed the notion of the “public sphere”. This is true at all levels: global, regional, national, community, and personal, where digital technologies have become ever...
World Bank The idea of the public sphere is normative. It is an ideal of good and accountable governance. Its requisites are free flows of information, free expression, and free debate....