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Datafication of Public Opinion and the Public Sphere : How Extraction Replaced Expression of Opinion - Slavko Splichal

Datafication of Public Opinion and the Public Sphere

How Extraction Replaced Expression of Opinion

By: Slavko Splichal

Hardcover | 12 July 2022

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The book, anchored in stimulating debates about the Enlightenment ideas of publicness, analyses historical changes in the core phenomena of publicness: possibilities, conditions and obstacles to developing a public sphere in which the public reflexively creates, articulates and expresses public opinion. It is focused on the historical transformation from "public use of reason" through the identification of "public opinion" in opinion polls to contemporary opinion mining, in which the Enlightenment idea of public expression of opinion has been displaced by the technology of extracting opinions. It heralds a new critical impetus in theory and research of publicness at a time when critical social thought is sharply criticising and even abandoning the notion of the public sphere, much like the notion of public opinion decades ago, due to its predominantly administrative use.

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"Slavko Splichal's book is an excellent, outstanding, highly important and extremely topical analysis of how datafication has colonised publicness, public opinion, and the public sphere. This work is a must-read for everyone who cares about democracy and is interested in how we can save democracy and democratic communication(s) from the threats they face today."-Professor Christian Fuchs, author of "Social Media: A Critical Introduction" and "Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory."

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