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Supporting the defence of PSB in terms of its importance for the public sphere, this chapter nevertheless argues for the need for a more nuanced and less selective reading of public sphere theory. It also engages head-on with the controversial debates around the inclusivity/exclusivity of the public sphere, the distinction between social and political issues, and, consequently, the problems with the idea of PSB for Habermas’s model, as well as with the compatibility of a Habermasian public sphere with Marshallian citizenship, so as to elaborate a more convincing and more efficacious account of PSB’s contribution to the public sphere.
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Dawes, S. (2017). The Social, the Political and the Public Sphere. In: British Broadcasting and the Public-Private Dichotomy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50097-3_9
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