英文摘要 |
Internet has been popular for more than ten years. During all these years, people have been expecting internet to work as a public sphere in terms of the distinguished technological traits. Taking the low access threshold and unlimited capacity for every kind of speech to focus, internet performances indeed reflect a well-constructed framework for fulfilingl what Habermas described as Public Sphere. However, the technological traits seem to direct how we think about internet rather than explain it based on the experienced reality. The public focuses too much on the conceptual construction, somehow disregards the fact that the theoretical concept doesn't always equal to the reality. Thus, with the help of Phenomenological epoché, this paper tried to move back to experience to see what the term 'Public Sphere' really means on internet. This paper indicated two critical cases to explore how the users of internet view the concept. It is found that internet maybe the main character when discussing about 'Public Sphere' but traditional mass communication, such as newspapers, actually provide the stage to perform. The visibilities degree of speech on internet are actually the real threshold that has to be faced. |