Rational Criticism, Ideological Sustainability and Intellectual Leadership in the Digital Public Sphere

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Main author: Mahlouly, Dounia
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description This review postulates that today's digital environments unveil an era of connectivity, in which digital communication devices exercise a general influence on social interactions and public deliberation. From this perspective, it argues that connective practices are likely to affect two main components of the normative public sphere, namely rational criticism and ideological sustainability. Drawing on the case of the 2011 Arab revolutions, in which social media proved to have a strategic function, this paper illustrates the ideological heterogeneity of social networks. Additionally, this article considers how issues of rational criticism and ideological sustainability could be improved by regulating online interactions and proposes that the digital divide could act as a natural process of regulation for today's connective and transnational public sphere.
format Journal Article
author Mahlouly, Dounia
author_facet Mahlouly, Dounia
authorStr Mahlouly, Dounia
author_letter Mahlouly, Dounia
title Rational Criticism, Ideological Sustainability and Intellectual Leadership in the Digital Public Sphere
publisher IGI Publishing Hershey
publishDate 2014
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/31125/

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