Aljazeera Network and Nascent Public Sphere in Arab World

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From 1990s onward, we observe the genesis and extension of supra-national public sphere in cybernetic and satellite space and mobilization of public opinion universally. From 2000 onward, in Middle East and North Africa, a type of public sphere has been shaped and expanded in cybernetic and satellite space. In this article by causal-analytical method, the author tries to give analytical answer to this question: why has been successful the Aljazeera satellite network in shaping of nascent public sphere in Arab world? The hypothesis is that: Aljazeera Network has been successful in the genesis and expansion of nascent public sphere due to these reasons: making opportunities for free and equal participation of all individuals and groups in dialogues and round tables, pushing of dialogues and public opinion to criticism, centralizing of dialogues and audiences on Arab’s general issues and public mobilization to democratic and revolutionary activism. The total finding of this research is that: Aljazeera Network has had high successfulness in fulfillment of tenets and characteristics of ideal model of Habermas such as: the principal of equal and general dialogue, pushing of dialogues to criticism and public dissatisfactions and issues and in end, mobilization of public opinion and protests in Arab world ,the principle of general action.

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World Politics
Volume 4, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
November 2015
Pages 168-141

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