How Events Enter the Public Sphere: Conflict, Location, and Sponsorship in Local Newspaper Coverage of Public Events

1999 ◽  
Vol 105 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela E. Oliver ◽  
Daniel J. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Events ◽  
Local Newspaper ◽  
The Public Sphere

One Europe or several Europes? The cultural logic of narratives of Europe — views from France and Britain

2010 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Rovisco
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Cultural Sociology ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Cultural Logic ◽  
The Public ◽  
Active Debate ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Key Events ◽  
Analytical Tools

Bringing together humanities and social science perspectives, this article applies narrative genres and symbolic classifications as analytical tools to examine competing cultural understandings of Europe, in France and Britain, through 2003 and 2005. Drawing on data from newspaper coverage of a set of key events of European debate, the author discusses how narratives and symbolic configurations of Europe are constructed differently in France and Britain in the context of the symbolic struggle to define who are core Europeans. Through the lens of a cultural sociology approach, the author argues that, in order to make their claims about Europe valid and plausible, political and cultural elites have to be able to translate the cultural idea of Europe into public narratives that resonate with the expectations and beliefs of the wider national public. This is particularly the case in moments of crisis or uncertainty over the meaning of Europe when novel demands and events, deriving from social or political pressures, generate a more active debate in the public sphere about Europe and EU affairs.

scholarly journals Winter Solstice Celebrations in Denmark: A Growing Non-Religious Ritualisation

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Astrid Krabbe Trolle
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Winter Solstice ◽  
The Public ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
Local Newspaper ◽  
Level I ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Over Time

During the last decade, local celebrations of winter solstice on the 21st of December have increased all over Denmark. These events refer to the Old Norse ritual of celebrating the return of the light, and their appeal is very broad on a local community level. By presenting two cases of Danish winter solstice celebrations, I aim to unfold how we can understand these new ritualisations as non-religious rituals simultaneously contesting and supplementing the overarching seasonal celebration of Christmas. My material for this study is local newspaper sources that convey the public sphere on a municipality level. I analyse the development in solstice ritualisations over time from 1990 to 2020. Although different in location and content, similarities unite the new solstice celebrations: they emphasise the local community and the natural surroundings. My argument is that the winter solstice celebrations have grown out of a religiously diversified public sphere and should be understood as non-religious rituals in a secular context.

scholarly journals Style over Substance: Newspaper Coverage of Early Election Campaigns in Canada, 1820-1841

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan Koerber
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Election Coverage ◽  
Democratic System ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Important Purpose

ABSTRACT Election coverage today is criticized for its obsession with individual candidates, appearances, and images, a focus on style over substance. During elections, there seems to be little space or air time in the mass media for substantive deliberation of campaign issues. However, this kind of election coverage is not new, despite implications that the age of television brought it about. The first competitive media environment in Canada (1820-1841), which this article documents, saw elections covered in a similar way. More importantly, this article argues that “style over substance” coverage served an important purpose in educating citizens about candidates and encouraging voting in a burgeoning partisan democratic system when the public sphere was still in its infancy.RÉSUMÉ  De nos jours, on critique la couverture des élections à cause de son obsession pour la personnalité des candidats, les apparences et les images, c’est-à-dire à cause de l’accent qu’elle met sur le style au détriment du fond. Pendant les élections, il semble y avoir peu de place dans les médias pour faire un examen sérieux des enjeux de la campagne. Ce type de couverture n’est pourtant pas une nouveauté, même si certains ont l’habitude d’accuser la télévision de l’avoir entraîné. Comme le démontre cet article, le premier environnement concurrentiel pour les médias au Canada (1820-1841) a occasionné une couverture non moins superficielle. Ce qui plus est, cet article affirme qu’une telle couverture a joué un rôle important pour sensibiliser les citoyens à l’égard des candidats et pour les encourager à voter dans le cadre d’un système démocratique et partisan au moment où la sphère publique en était encore à ses débuts.

scholarly journals Public Events as a Form of Interaction Between the Government and the Russian Public in the Second Half of the 1850s

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-171
Author(s):  
Oksana Zavyalova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Qualitative Change ◽  
Early Years ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Events ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Public Environment

Introduction. In this article, the public events that took place in Russia during the early years of the reign of Alexander II are considered as one of the forms of interaction between the government and the public. Methods and materials. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study was the concept of modernization and the theory of the public sphere of J. Habermas, which made it possible to analyze the relationship between the government and the public in Russia as an outwardly expressed and situationally determined social interaction in the context of preparing modernization transformations. The basis of the research is made by memoirs and correspondence of statesmen and public figures. Analysis. It is noted that dinners on the occasion of anniversaries and celebrations in honour of the Sevastopol Defense heroes, as well as other celebrations in the context of the socio-political upsurge of the 1850s, turned into government-public channels, through which representatives of the Russian educated society tried to convey the transformative ideas generated in the public environment to the autocratic power. Results. In the first years of the reign of Alexander II, under the influence of a complex of factors, there was a qualitative change in the public sphere in Russia as an interaction zone between the government and educated society towards the formation of a subject-subject government-public relations model, characterized by the desire of both the public and the government to take into account the interests and needs of each other friend to achieve a common goal – the preparation and implementation of a set of reforms.

The Suffering of the Perpetrators: The Ethics of Traumatic German Historicity in Karen Bass's Young Adult World War II Novels

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-77
Author(s):  
Doris Wolf
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adult World ◽  
The Public Sphere

This paper examines two young adult novels, Run Like Jäger (2008) and Summer of Fire (2009), by Canadian writer Karen Bass, which centre on the experiences of so-called ordinary German teenagers in World War II. Although guilt and perpetration are themes addressed in these books, their focus is primarily on the ways in which Germans suffered at the hands of the Allied forces. These books thus participate in the increasingly widespread but still controversial subject of the suffering of the perpetrators. Bringing work in childhood studies to bear on contemporary representations of German wartime suffering in the public sphere, I explore how Bass's novels, through the liminal figure of the adolescent, participate in a culture of self-victimisation that downplays guilt rather than more ethically contextualises suffering within guilt. These historical narratives are framed by contemporary narratives which centre on troubled teen protagonists who need the stories of the past for their own individualisation in the present. In their evacuation of crucial historical contexts, both Run Like Jäger and Summer of Fire support optimistic and gendered narratives of individualism that ultimately refuse complicated understandings of adolescent agency in the past or present.

Habermas, Cultural Hegemony, and the Educational Public Sphere

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Arabic Speaking

This study explores Habermas’s work in terms of the relevance of his theory of the public sphere to the politics and poetics of the Arab oral tradition and its pedagogical practices. In what ways and forms does Arab heritage inform a public sphere of resistance or dissent? How does Habermas’s notion of the public space help or hinder a better understanding of the Arab oral tradition within the sociopolitical and educational landscape of the Arabic-speaking world? This study also explores the pedagogical implications of teaching Arab orality within the context of the public sphere as a contested site that informs a mode of resistance against social inequality and sociopolitical exclusions.

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