Gramsci Versus Habermas: A Post-habermassian Approach Into The Subaltern Public Spheres In The Digital Era
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2015-12
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Université de M'sila
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The purpose of the present paper is departing from a subaltern Gramscian-influenced theoretical approach to offer a compendium of insights into the potentially emancipatory contribution of the Internet towards revitalizing the role of subaltern groups enabling them to construct parallel subaltern public spheres within the virtual space and, facilitating them the dissemination of their counter-discourse. At first, I will provide a genealogical account of the concept of subaltern , starting with the connotation of this concept as it was initially used by Gramsci, examining the new reflections of the concept as extended by the members of the Subaltern Studies Group, paying particular focus on the key insights provided by Gayatri Spivak. Following that, I will offer a theoretical overview of Habermas’s concept of the public sphere forwarding useful insights into the structural transformation of the public sphere. Thereafter, I will carry out a descriptive analysis of the critiques of the Habermassian concept of public sphere, elucidating the most substantial deficiencies of Habermas’s theory
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abermassian Approach ; the Subaltern Public Spheres; the Digital Era