On-line Communication, Postmodernism, and «Tensions» in the Concept of «Public (Opinion)»
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Abstract
The core question addressed in this article is: can we challenge the inherent «tensions» in the concept of «public (opinion)» in the age where the Internet is a means of communicating freely? After reviewing the recent bibliography on high technologies of the communication and literature on the interactions in the cyberspace and the communication online in postmodernity, the author concludes that the public locates itself at the moment in the limits, the border between the virtual world and the physical reality, and that the public is understood generally like a concept that penetrates between on-line rhetorical spaces and the off-line public space and learning «to inhabit» them «from inside out». Conceptualizing on-line rhetorical spaces and the subjects who inhabit them in postmodern terms, attenuates or possibly eliminates the inherent «tension» in the modern concep tualization of «public (opinion).»
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