THE SOCIAL MEDIA AS A PUBLIC SPHERE: THE RISE OF SOCIAL OPPOSITION

In The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, Habermas described the bourgeois public spheres of the 18th and 19th century in

England, France, and Germany. These spheres arose as arenas of cultural critique often arising from reading societies that focused on

novels and the like. Cultural critique became political critique as these groups turned to issues of public concern fighting policies of

censorship and for freedom of opinion. The public sphere is in the work of Jürgen Habermas conceived as a neutral social space for critical

debate among private persons who gather to discuss matters of common concern in a free and rational way. This public sphere is open and

accessed for public. Habermas pointed out that media has contributed to the decay of the rational-critical discourse and causing the decline

of the public sphere

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