Social Networking Sites as a New Public Sphere: Facebook and its Potential to Facilitate Public Opinion as the Function of Public Discourse – A Case Study of the 2008 Obama Campaign

Social Networking Sites as a New Public Sphere: Facebook and its Potential to Facilitate Public Opinion as the Function of Public Discourse – A Case Study of the 2008 Obama Campaign

Thesis (MPhil (Political Science))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010. === In the 17th and 18th centuries the bourgeois public sphere emerged as the conceptual space between the public, with its enclosed institutions and organisations, and the circle of the private life. It is within this more or l...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smuts, Lize-Marie
Other Authors: Gouws, A.
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch 2010
Subjects:
public sphere
public opinion
Facebook
Obama
Theses > Political science
Dissertations > Political science
Online social networks > Political aspects
Public opinion
Presidents > Social networks > United States > Elections
Political Science
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4209

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http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4209

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