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Habermas And Public Reason In The Digital Age: Technology And Deliberative Democracy, Asaf Bar-Tura
Habermas And Public Reason In The Digital Age: Technology And Deliberative Democracy, Asaf Bar-Tura
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Scholars defending the deliberative model of democracy have focused much of their attention on argumentation and criteria for offering public reasons in deliberative processes, but have paid little attention to the ways in which digital technologies mediate such deliberations. Conversely, critical theorists of technology have emphasized the socially determined nature of technology, but have lacked a theory of democracy through which to normatively assess technologies that mediate public discourse. Through a reworking of Jürgen Habermas’s discourse-based theory of democracy, my research provides a new understanding of the flows of political communication and power in the democratic public sphere and the …
Identity, Oppression, And Group Rights, Andrew Jared Pierce
Identity, Oppression, And Group Rights, Andrew Jared Pierce
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The dissertation argues for a conception of group rights based on Habermasian discourse theory, as an alternative to the dominant multicultural liberal approach to group rights, which treats group rights as instrumental to individual rights.