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In this chapter, three issues in recent public sphere research will be addressed: first, the theoretical issue of the social and cultural embeddedness of the public sphere; second, the methodological issues that arise from the changing conceptions of the social and cultural embeddedness of public spheres; and third, linked to the two former ones, the issue of clarifying the link between the reality of public spheres and their normative presuppositions.
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Eder, K. (2013). Struggling with the Concept of a Public Sphere. In: Salvatore, A., Schmidtke, O., Trenz, HJ. (eds) Rethinking the Public Sphere Through Transnationalizing Processes. Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283207_2
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