[Air-L] Public Sphere Article?

[Joe Williams]

Just want to echo Tyler that Michael Warner is very good and quite
accessible.

If you're looking for foundational stuff, I'd also consider Dewey's _The
Public and Its Problems_, as well as Hannah Arendt's _The Human Condition_
(there is a particular chapter focused on publicness).

If you want to extend the conversation in a slightly more sociological
direction, Erving Goffman's _The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life_ is
helpful. 

--Joe

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I've taught Michael Warner to good effect. While his essay "Publics and
Counterpublics" is probably too difficult, I'd recommend the first chapter
of that book, "Public and Private," which is really excellent and much more
accessible. Conceptualizing "privacy" and adding the gender and sexuality
lens as a hook really helps students grasp pretty abstract concepts. 

Or you might consider an "original" text -- say Kant's "What Is
Enlightenment?", which is helpfully short and pretty specific about what
counts as "public" and what "private" and the implications that follow.
Something like that could create an opportunity for collaborative close
reading early in the semester, and might also usefully set up a later
reading of Habermas and others. 

Best,
Tyler



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Columbia University
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On Aug 14, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Adam Fish wrote:

Dear List,

I am teaching an undergraduate course on media and the public sphere and
looking for an article that introduces the public sphere. Habermas is too
dense; Nancy Fraser probably too. The article could be an anthropological
case study that frames the data in the theory of the public sphere or a more
straight theoretical article. Any ideas?

Thank you!

Best,

--
Adam Fish, PhD
Lecturer, Media Studies
Sociology Department, Lancaster University mediacultures.org, @mediacultures
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