Ein neuer Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit?

The public sphere is important for democracy and it is changing. Its current development is taking place at the point where three sequences of institutional change meet and interact: globalisation, commodification and the digitalisation of social dimensions. The contributions to this volume examine these developments in discussion with the public sphere theory of Jürgen Habermas, who presents his own reflections on a renewed structural transformation of the public sphere. The book is aimed at a broad interdisciplinary audience from the social and cultural sciences who are interested in lively and functioning public spheres and would like to gain an overview of related opportunities for and challenges to the legitimacy and effectiveness of democracy based on well-founded contemporary diagnoses of our times.

With contributions by
Markus Baum, Timon Beyes, Ulrich Brinkmann, Donatella della Porta, Leonhard Dobusch, Renate Fischer, Nancy Fraser, Jürgen Habermas, Heiner Heiland, Maximillian Heimstädt, Otfried Jarren, Sandra Kostner, Georg Krücken, Felix Maschewski, Anna-Verena Nosthoff, Claudia Ritzi, Christof Roos, Hartmut Rosa, Martin Seeliger, Sebastian Sevignani, Philipp Staab, Thorsten Thiel, Tanja Thomas, Hans-Jörg Trenz, Silke Van Dyk, Fabian Virchow and Michael Zürn.