Public Sphere Participation Online: the Ambiguities of Affect, Cairn.info, de Peter Dahlgren. professor Emérito da Universidade de Lund.

“Debates about the internet’s contributions to the public sphere and democracy took off almost as soon as going online was becoming a mass phenomenon in the mid-1990s. Today, more than two decades later, we are certainly not close to any consensus, but most would agree that the initial celebratory crescendos have dissipated. Skeptics such as Mozorov (2011) can find plenty of evidence for not putting much hope in the internet’s potential for saving or even enhancing democracy. Continue reading →