Week 6: Speaking & Listening

The article 'The Virtual Sphere', discusses the internet as a domain for public opinion and a part of the public sphere. Written in 2002, this article refers to the idea that the internet could potentially be home to open public discussion and disregard hierarchy or positions in a society behind the responder.  As we are aware 9 years later the internet is having much more of a drastic input into our lives through sharing opinions online, which are constantly expressed on social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, online petitions and an expression of our political opinions are even made clear in blogs. The article debates whether the internet is a part of the public sphere or the virtual sphere and it appears to reside mutual to both.

Bibliography
Papacharissi, z., 2002, The virtual sphere:The internet as a public sphere, New Media and Society, Vol 4, No.1, pp.9-27