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Week 1: The Public Sphere, media and publicness (Geoffery Craig) (Lecture,…

- - - - Accessibility - Public parks, town squares, courts etc. Places where anyone can go no matter who they are or where they come from, no restrictions. Also, access not only to the space but also to associated rights to that space.
      - Universality - Public space is a generalized space, providing "room for all voices, regardless of their status, background, or mode of expression." Coleman & Ross, (2010). Generalised space, space of diversity, universal.
      - Visibility - Public spaces must be open to general scrutiny. Not behind closed doors.
      - Physical examples of a public space are state entities such as public hospitals, public schools.
    - - Don't think about it as a physical space, public space is where we congress and intact with one another.
      - "A social configuration comprising practiced and experienced relationships of interaction." Coleman & Ross, (2010)
      - My definition: A non defined social space for relationships to interact.
  - - - Wrote: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An inquiry into a category of bourgeois society. Translated into English in 1989 from German.
      - Habermas’ study of the public sphere is both
        a historical and normative account. The Public Sphere is not his original idea.
      - The idea of "the public" arose around the mid 17th and early 18th century where individual/private people came together to debate the regulations of civil society.
      - The middle class people then demanded that the courts/governing of the state be made open to the public.
      - “Habermas maintains that this bourgeois public sphere of the 18th century was the nearest historical approximation we have ever had of the ideal of the public sphere” Craig, (2004).
  - - - rise of entertainment and decline in ??
      - debating to consuming
      - politions preform more then debate now linking back to how long kings used to be being the idea of the public.
  - - - Dose not work with the idea of power
      - Jürgen Habermas only like transparent, rational, face-to-face, print-based communication and do not like emotion and rhetoric, mediated forms of communication and visual based media.
      - “Habermas prizes conversa7on, reading and plain speech as worthy forms of discourse for a democra7c culture and is frankly hos7le to theatre, courtly forms, ceremony, the visual, and to rhetoric more generally. The brief flowering of the bourgeois public sphere is sandwiched, in STPS’s narra7ve, between two moments of ‘representa7on’: feudal pomp and modern PR” Peters, (1993)
      - People think that neutral area is not possible - when we speak we are coming from a cetin position.
  - - - ideas of everyone having the same thoughts and reding the same things
    - - Screen is random. (slide)
      - P Spher been sublimated by the screen idea.
      - Virtual SP Sphere which relates to containment is it still appropriate. Is networks nor approbate now for the way that it is. Yes it is.