Deluca and Peeples describe public sphere as, "public sphere denotes a social space wherein private citizens gather as a public body with the rights of assembly, association, and expression in order to form public opinion," (185).
Example:
In September of 1963, in Montgomery, Alabama the Supreme Court ordered for desegregation of schools. Many members of the Ku Klux Klan and other white citizens along with the white students gathered together to protest the entering of black children into a white school. They wanted to express their hate and disapproval.
From The Text:
In the paper by Peeples and DeLuca they describe how we start from a public sphere to a public screen. From people gathering together to express their opinion we now use newspaper and televisions to get the ideas and points wanting to express in a larger scale. One example for public sphere is at the beginning. "From November 30 to December 3, Seattle, high-tech capital of the present future, became the site of a contested contested New World Order as the forces of global capital, meeting under cover of the anonymous acronym WTO (World Trade Organization), were surprised by a cacophonous cadre of international grassroots activists in a pitched battle over visions of the future (183)." These people as well, came together as a group with a cause and an opinion they needed to express. This group also grew. "...crowds of thousands clogging the commercial center of Seattle and stranding WTO delegates in the mass of humanity," (183). We grew into the larger public sphere we are now from far in past such as, "The Pynx, Athen's theater of democracy," and "the New England town meeting..." (186)
Works cited:
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Sokol, By Jason. "IIP Digital | U.S. Department of State." White Southerners' Reactions to the Civil Rights Movement. IIP Digital, 29 Dec. 2008. Web. 08 Oct. 2016.
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