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CHAPTER 6. ANALYZING THE TALK.ABORTION NEWSGROUP 100 Table 6.12: Deciles Abortion Density and Metacommunication Density By Thread Thread Mean Mean Group Abortion Metacommunication Density Density 1 0.39 0.03 2 0.36 0.05 3 0.33 0.07 4 0.30 0.08 5 0.27 0.09 6 0.27 0.10 7 0.27 0.11 8 0.24 0.13 9 0.23 0.15 10 0.22 0.22 F =10:73 F =36:78 p =0:00 p =0:00
Chapter 7 The Expanding Public Sphere This thesis advances our understanding of the opportunities provided by Usenet, and by extension other forms of computer mediated communication, to expand the public sphere. As importantly, this thesis introduces a methodology for examining the patterns of communication within Usenet newsgroups, and provides some initial steps toward understanding the nature of this rapidly developing communications medium. This thesis suggests that Usenet newsgroup might expand the public sphere by providing opportunities for individual citizens to engage each other in rationalcritical debate about the abortion issue. More specifically, criteria by which a public sphere arena can be evaluated for its goodness of fit with the idealized public sphere defined by Habermas (1989) in The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere are specified and measures for each of these criteria are developed and applied to an ongoing conversation about politics. The informal zone of the public sphere created by the participants in the talk.abortion newsgroup was found to be diverse and reciprocal, but lacking in equality and quality. This chapter summarizes the main arguments presented in the thesis and highlights the key findings. It must be noted that this work represents a beginning, not an end. Other dimensions with which to measure the public sphere could have been selected, and might have resulted in different conclusions. Additionally, alternative operationalizations of the dimensions may have resulted in alternative findings. It is important, however, that the scholarly community continue to expand our abilities to measure the nature of the public sphere, especially with reference to emerging communication technologies. 101
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