ICT's and public sphere / Abd Rasid Abd Rahman

The development of the public sphere is important in order for ‘citizens’ to be able to participate fully in the democratic process. As pointed out by Dahlgren (1991:2), the concept of the public sphere can be regarded as a normative reference point and as a ‘visible indicator of our admittedly impe...

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Main Author: Abd Rahman, Abd Rasid
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Language:English
Published: Centre for Media and Information Warfare Studies 2009
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/26191/
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spelling uitm-261912021-06-03T08:34:02Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/26191/ ICT's and public sphere / Abd Rasid Abd Rahman jmiw Abd Rahman, Abd Rasid Broadcasting Journalism. The periodical press, etc. Press Computer network resources.Including the Internet Freedom of the press Broadcast journalism Online journalism The development of the public sphere is important in order for ‘citizens’ to be able to participate fully in the democratic process. As pointed out by Dahlgren (1991:2), the concept of the public sphere can be regarded as a normative reference point and as a ‘visible indicator of our admittedly imperfect democracies’. Habermas (1989) famously in his work has made a clear reference to the decay of the public sphere as a result of extensive interests of private entities in public discourse. He saw that this could be problematic for organising open democratic expression in the public sphere Centre for Media and Information Warfare Studies 2009-10 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/26191/1/26191.pdf Abd Rahman, Abd Rasid (2009) ICT's and public sphere / Abd Rasid Abd Rahman. (2009) Journal of Media and Information Warfare (JMIW) <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/Journal_of_Media_and_Information_Warfare_=28JMIW=29.html>, 2. pp. 23-36. ISSN 1985-563X https://jmiw.uitm.edu.my/
spellingShingle Broadcasting
Journalism. The periodical press, etc. Press
Computer network resources.Including the Internet
Freedom of the press
Broadcast journalism
Online journalism
Abd Rahman, Abd Rasid
ICT's and public sphere / Abd Rasid Abd Rahman
title ICT's and public sphere / Abd Rasid Abd Rahman
title_full ICT's and public sphere / Abd Rasid Abd Rahman
title_fullStr ICT's and public sphere / Abd Rasid Abd Rahman
title_full_unstemmed ICT's and public sphere / Abd Rasid Abd Rahman
title_short ICT's and public sphere / Abd Rasid Abd Rahman
title_sort ict's and public sphere / abd rasid abd rahman
topic Broadcasting
Journalism. The periodical press, etc. Press
Computer network resources.Including the Internet
Freedom of the press
Broadcast journalism
Online journalism
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/26191/
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/26191/