CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Ioannidou, Nina |
|---|---|
| Title | Re-discovering the Political: the Prying Actions of Russian Bloggers |
| Summary | The purpose of my research is to investigate whether there are connections between blogging and the constitution of the public sphere in the Russian context. However, in order to embark on such exploration, the understanding of blogging as such is required. In achieving this task I had to construct a theoretical constellation, which will offer ample room for re-discovering blogging and enabling me to see it from different perspectives. However, successful explorations happen only through struggle, so in order to establish such context, diametrically opposed theorists of Public Sphere were chosen – namely, Hannah Arendt and Jurgen Habermas. Their insights unraveled the complexity inherent in public life and the difficulty in creating clear-cut distinctions between public and private. Nevertheless, the understanding of the public according to Arendt – where freedom in perspectives is ensured and members co-exist together neither ruling over each other or ruled – prevailed, as the freedom of perspectives is present in my empirical case, albeit arranged and organized in a museum like manner. |
| Supervisor | Alexander Astrov |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/ioannidou_nina.pdf |
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