Guest Editor's Introduction: The Internet and the Public Sphere

2005/04/01 by Kees Brants
Social Sciences · #Media Studies and Communication #Social Media and Politics

paper · doi:10.1080/10584600590933133

openalex publication_date 2005/04/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

The road to the political benefits of the Internet is lined with believers and critics. The believer—swho are, depending on the source, either labeled e–optimists or cyber–utopians hail this new me...

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