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Lecture: Zum Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit: Digitale Kommunikation, Hegemonie und Plattformen

Sebastian Sevignani (Uni Jena) about the structural change of the public sphere

16. Jan

The Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) in Culture and Society welcomes Sebastian Sevignani of the Jena University for a Lecture about the structural change of the public sphere in the context of digital communication.

Date: Thursday, January 16th 2025, 6-8pm
Location: Leuphana University, C40.704
Language: German

One of the advantages of Jürgen Habermas' habilitation thesis on the The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere was the insight that political communication can only be understood together with political economy (including the media). Subsequently, the lecture will outline the current structural change of the public sphere in the context of digital communication and the rise of powerful platform intermediaries from the perspective of critical (ideology, hegemony, media and public sphere) theory and then explain what it means when not only individual nodes within the public sphere, but the public sphere as such tends to come under private control and is ‘exploited’.