Abstract
Since the publishing of Jürgen Habermas’ masterpiece where he described the public sphere as an illustration of publicity in the bourgeois milieu of the 18th century, the public space went through substantial changes. This transformation, in the first instance, was due to the fact that laymen speeches have been excluded from it for a long time. The liberation of expression led to a remarkable change i.e., the control of utterance no longer intervenes before but after publication, though this used to guide interventions in the public space. As a result, visibility gained the upper hand on publicity. In other words, self- presence replaced the filtering by gatekeepers. The Internet and its numerous developments symbolized this tendency.
Highlights
Debates on “the public space” oppose the prescriptive acceptation to a spatial approach of the notion
Thanks to the divide established between the visible and the public, the Internet has paved the way to many excesses: one can say everything and anything in the model of contributory web and one can exhibit their private life in the mitigated web model
This liberation presents undeniable risks, but as has been seen, the internet does not put everything at the same level of visibility
Summary
Debates on “the public space” oppose the prescriptive acceptation to a spatial approach of the notion. Law is based on this definition when it decides on the divide between public space and private space: what happens on the street is accessible but domestic disputes or other scenes taking place indoors are not (Iacub, 2008). In this respect, the Internet can be regarded as a public space and what is published here shall be subjected to the press laws. The concept of public space is characterized by the fact that public statements are governed by specific criteria which give them a general interest. Some statements do not deserve to be brought to the attention of all, while oth-
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