Another structural transformation of the public sphere? On recent challenges and current research projects
Lecture by Jan-Hinrik Schmidt at Umeå University in Sweden
At the end of January, 2011, Jan-Hinrik-Schmidt, senior researcher for digital interactive media and political communication at the Hans Bredow Institute, was invited to present the institute and some of his research at the HUMlab, an interesting and lively centre at the conjunction of media studies, information technology and arts at Umeå University in Sweden.
His talk was on “Another structural transformation of the public sphere? On recent challenges and current research projects”, alluding to Jürgen Habermas’ grand theory of the public sphere, and presenting some concepts and research ideas to analyze changes in the structures and mechanism of the current sphere that have to be accounted for.
livestream of the presentation on HUMlab’s stream site. The part about the structural changes (slides 6 to 10) starts here, the part where Jan discusses his research findings (slides 11 onwards) starts here