The new agora: the space of public debate in the digital age

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    This paper asks the following questions: are these platforms spaces for public debate? This deliberately loose definition makes it possible to establish with an a posteriori and non-normative (Fraser, 1990, p 72) rule of thumb the fundamental characteristic of the public debate: being the space and the engine that defines, more or less indirectly, social development and the decisions taken in the loci potestatis. The example of the Athenian agora (where full citizens, members of the political assembly gathered themselves aiming for a real impact in the courses of the city`s actions . . .

     

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