The Public Sphere: Migration of Normative Principles and the Digital Construction of Transnational Ethics
Martin Gak · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2016
Martin Gak examines the substantive content and fluid transformation of the public sphere in digital networks. He argues that the public sphere is not synonymous with its content, and therefore it is a mistake to suppose that the public sphere entails a moral property. Rather, the public sphere and the expanding capacity to foster care and reasons can host the most amenable as well as the most abominable sociocultural and political propositions and alignments. In fact, under some conditions the erosion of the public sphere may be, quite simply, desirable.