The media forms the basis of the society. It has evolved through the ages and will continue to do so as new technologies and ideologies form. Wherever one goes they are faced with different forms of media and in present times this has become even more prevalent. New media and Technology is something that has become extremely prominent and important within modern society. It allows one to gather, produce and distribute news in various manners. For decades now, technology has continued to progress. Convergence of traditional and new media is constantly changing and causes the world to become smaller and the distribution of messages has become more efficient. The emergence of new media has allowed the concept of Jürgen Habermas’ public sphere to expand. The potential of new media to bring about social, political and economic development is abundant. Society depends on the synergy between civil society and the public sphere. This essay will explore the relationship between society and the public sphere. It will explain the positives and negatives of the public sphere and new media, with relevant examples. So too it will display how the public sphere continues to transform as a result of the constant changes and prevalence of new media and technology.
Jürgen Habermas, a contemporary social theorist coined the concept of the public sphere. He explains it to be the realm of society’s social life in which public opinion can be discussed and formed (Dahlberg, 2001: 83-96). Citizens come together and have a discursive discussion in an unrestricted manner. People within this sphere have unlimited freedom of expression about matters of general and public interest. In the past, the public sphere was based largely on class. The bourgeoisie cla...
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... economic development and change. The synergy between civil society and the new public sphere has many limitations yet also maintains countless advantages. . The media is not static and will continue to evolve infinitely. This will ultimately, constantly challenge the concept of an ideal public sphere but the evolution of new media in society is greatly advantageous and helps form a well functioning and effective society. Many critique the subject of new media and explain the reason it may not be called a public sphere while others express their opinions as to why new media and the internet most definitely is a public sphere as it has the ability to bring about much development within society. Moreover, This debate will continue within society as new media continues to grow and synergizes with society to create a new, important and sometimes limited public sphere.
The commercials appear in the press and reduce the matters to entertainment and trivialities. Given that television is the primary channel for public communication, it programs people’s minds through their images and determines the direction the people take. Postman claims that these claims are not a form of criticism of the visual arts, but types of communication become positive or adverse contingent on the link they have to symbols and functions in the social order. Television, the internet, and social media pay a similar role in the society. Since the emergence of technology a few decades ago, the various forms of communication has developed. The internet, being one of them, is primarily an international computer linkage that began over four decades ago. It is a global open linkage of networks depending on the protocol. The latest emergence of the contemporary internet is social media which consists of applications grounded on technological and ideological establishments of Web 2.0 and which facilitate the formation and exchange of use produced content (Haier, Flynn & Sternberg). It is a new kind of interaction
When discussing the media, we must search back to its primal state the News Paper. For it was the News paper and its writers that forged ahead and allowed freedoms for today’s journalism on all fronts, from the Twitter accounts to the daily gazettes all must mark a single event in the evolution of media in respects to politics and all things shaping. Moving on in media history, we began to see a rapid expansion around 1990. With more than 50% of all American homes having cable TV access, newspapers in every city and town with major newspaper centers reaching far more than ever before. Then the introduction of the Internet; nothing would ever be the same.
Public broadcasting was birthed, was to ensure that there is a medium where every voice had a platform. The goal was to ensure that citizens have access to information is essential in balancing the nation. Taras (2001) borrows a quote from Lowe and Juart (2005), who sate that public broadcasting “is to build social capital by “bridging” “bonding” and “witnessing”, but most of all by treating audience members as citizens rather than as consumers” (lowe & jauert, 2005).
New technology has fuelled the expansion with the growth of phone apps, social media formats, smartphones able to capture video and upload instantly onto the web. The public is now recording, documenting, sharing and viewing events as they happen, often before professional journalist or reporters. Technology allows people to view major events in real time anywhere in the world, creating a ‘global village’ in which everyone is connected (McLuhan 1964; cited in Giddens 2013). However, the mass medias of television, radio and newspapers both in print and online, continue to be the mediums the public accesses the news and events on a local, national and international
Habermas, J. (2000). The public sphere. In P. Marris & S. Thornham (Eds.), Media Studies : A reader(2nd.) (pp. 92–97). New York: New York University Press.
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