مجلة علوم الإنسان والمجتمع
Volume 1, Numéro 4, Pages 3-29
2012-12-03

Is There An Arab Public Sphere?

Authors : Daoud Djefafla .

Abstract

With the advent of satellite channels are broadcasting the regional at the end of the last century and increased in number during the first decade of the third millennium has grown the idea of a “Arab Public Sphere” and have a lot of academic research based on this idea to say its ability to “create a democracy”, what in the countriesArab. In this study, a critical approach to try to understand the validity of this argument based on the perception of the historic public space with Jürgen Habermas and studies provided by the Frankfurt School accordingly and which constitute the main source of the idea of Arab on “Arab Public Sphere” and as a result the objective is to determine the nature of space, which is active when the Arab media, to identify its features and explain how it works. (Jürgen Habermas).

Keywords

Arab Public Sphere