Jürgen Habermas defines "The Public Sphere" as a realm of social life where 'private' individuals freely gather, discuss, and form a public opinion.
In the past, the media of the public sphere, in his essay of "The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article" are "newspapers and magazines, radio and television". However, today, we have a new medium, internet, which is the culmination of the other media. It has combined different aspects of media. We can now watch television news, television shows, read newspaper articles and magazines, and listen to radio online. Furthermore, internet users are given a virtual space to discuss and share personal opinions on matters.
Daily Kos is a political blog, where internet users explore not only informational videos, but also share political opinions. There is a poll about Obama on the first page. So, the blog displays certain politics-related information and events.
Chapter 5, Visual Technologies, Image reproduction, and the copy in the book of 'Practices of Looking' suggests:
"Technologies interact with people and the forces of politics, economics, and other aspects of culture in various social and historical contexts, resulting in changes not only in the technologies themselves but also in social practices and uses"
As suggested, technologies affect various aspects of people's lives. Not to mention how to communicate with each other. Internet has been one of the most important innovation in our era. It has made it possible to communicate with someone from the other side of the world, to receive massive information at once, and to create virtual spaces to express themselves and interact with other users.
Because internet users are given chance to freely comment and discuss about matters and videos and, through discussion it can form a kind of dominant public opinion, the daily kos blog can be considered as "the public sphere".
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