Abstract
New media technologies with their networking capabilities have raised age-old questions about the nature of the public implicit in Enlightenment and about the role of public relations industries in democracies. This article reviews conflicting representational and deliberative notions of public dominant in the 20th century, the implications of late 20th century alternatives, and what Hegel's writings might suggest for a 21st century concept of public. The article offers a reconceptualization of public as process—a constantly evolving conflict of the particular with the universal rather than as either a stable essence or as a consensus-building discourse.
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