چکیده:
In recent decades, "Public Sphere" is one of the most important concepts in political science. Jurgen Habermas the famous thinker in this approach is the first to use this concept in critical thinking, where he demonstrates how networking is used for communicative actions. Habermas has not included the Internet as an important part of his thought process in the "public sphere", however, I think, the Internet could be used as a very powerful tool for public articulation in public affairs. The aim of this article is to determine and associate Jurgen Habermas's viewpoint of "public sphere" and locate the Internet's position in his public sphere. The method of this re-search was the use of many critical thinker's opinions and works regarding "public sphere". The result of this research is the significant changes from his earlier thought processes to his later thought processes. The answer to the question of "What about a possibility of the effect of the In-ternet on 'public sphere' in Jurgen Habermas's thought?" I think it is possible, and should be a very important inclusion in the "Public sphere". My opinion is that Habermas's works could be en-hanced through the inclusion of the Internet in the "public sphere".
خلاصه ماشینی:
1-7) Possibility of the effect of the Internet on 'Public Sphere' in Jurgen Habermas's Tthought?" Garineh Keshishyan Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch Received: 22 Nov 2012 ; Accepted: 21 Jan 2013 In recent decades, "Public Sphere" is one of the most important concepts in political science.
Abstract: Keywords: Public sphere, the Internet, Communicative action, Electronic democracy Introduction Contemporary debates about the "Public Sphere" have been dominated by the discus- sion of Jurgen Habermas's seminal study, "The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere.
In my opinion, when Habermas says "Public Sphere" is a net- work, with communication and exchanging of Ideas, we can then say that the Internet and the "metaphorical space" can play this role for us.
In this subject James Bohman says: "Computer-mediated communication also extends the forum, by providing a new un- bounded space for communicative interac- tion, but its innovative potential lies not just in its speed and scale but also within new form of address or interaction: as a many-to- many mode of communication, it has radical- ly lowered the costs of interaction with an indefinite and potentially large audience, es- pecially with regard to adopting the speaker role without the costs of the mass me- dia.
At the very least, computer-mediated communication offers a potentially new solu- tion to the problem of the extension of com- municative interactions across space and time and thus, perhaps, signals the emergence of a public sphere that is not subject to the specif- ic linguistic, cultural and spatial limitations of the bounded national public sphere that have up to now supported representative democratic institutions.