The unfinished mutation of the public sphere
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The text analyzes the contemporary mutation of the public sphere as an effect of the extension of cyberspace and contemplates the new possibilities of development that this mutation opens up to democracy, particularly to collective deliberation. After recalling the quantitative data concerning the extension of digital communication and describing the progress of social computing, the major trends of the new public sphere are presented: its global reach, its structure of "all towards all" and "equal" like "the same as the fading private / public distinction. However, the new possibilities of democratic collective understanding can only be fully realized if the problems of semantic interoperability posed by the multiplicity of languages and the incompatibility of classification systems are resolved.
Public sphere, Cyberdemocracy, Social computing, Web 2.0., Collective understanding, Semantic spaceSphère publique, Cyberdémocratie, Computation sociale, Web 2.0, Intelligence collective, Espace semantiqueEsfera pública, Ciberdemocracia, Computação social, Web 2.0, Compreensão coletiva, Espaço semânticoEsfera pública, Ciberdemocracia, Computación social, Web 2.0, Entendimiento colectivo, Espacio semántico
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