Outline and evaluate Habermas’s theory of the transformation and decline of the ‘public sphere
Abstract The past few decades have seen a plethora of research studies exploring on the emergence and transformation of the public sphere (Benson 2009). Most of these works have been influenced and guided by the work of Jurgen Habermas, particularly his concept of the bourgeois public sphere. This paper outlines and evaluates Habermas’s theory of the transformation and the subsequent decline of the ‘public sphere’. […]