This chapter discusses social media as a potential space for political deliberation and new forms of public engagement, reviewing central debates on the conditions under which this can occur. It then focuses on the unequal distribution of attention in social networks as a key structural feature of online communication.

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Public Spheres in Times of Social Media

  • Stephan Schlögl

摘要

This chapter discusses social media as a potential space for political deliberation and new forms of public engagement, reviewing central debates on the conditions under which this can occur. It then focuses on the unequal distribution of attention in social networks as a key structural feature of online communication.