The Global Public Sphere – Public Communication in the Age of Reflexive Globali…

The Global Public Sphere\n\nPublic Communication in the Age of Reflective Interdependence\n\nIngrid Volkmer (Author)\n\n9780745639574, Polity Press\n\nHardback, published 27 June 2014\n\n224 pages\n23.6 x 16 x 2.3 cm, 0.472 kg\n\n\""Ingrid Volkmer is not looking at the future in terms of a projection from the past, but in terms of 'what is to come'. This shift of perspective makes a tremendous difference. Reading her book becomes a fascinating eye-opening experience because we then \u201Csee\u201D how the still dominant assumptions about nation-state organized publics, mass-media consumption, and so on, are blinding us to the new emerging personal networked realities that link individuals across world regions in 'lived' global public spaces.\""\n Ulrich Beck, University of Munich\n \""Where now do we think, reflect and deliberate? Can the complexities of today\u2019s political reflexivities be contained within the borders of national territory? In this exhilarating and diversely grounde]