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A Study on Double-sidedness of the Internet Media Public Sphere and Democracy in Korea

  • Civil Society and NGO
  • 2021, 19(1), pp.39~73
  • Publisher : The Third Sector Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general > Other Social Science in general
  • Received : April 8, 2021
  • Accepted : May 21, 2021
  • Published : May 31, 2021

Song, Kyongjae 1

1상지대학교

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ABSTRACT

This research paper focused on the relationship between the media and democracy and tried to analyze the influence and implications of the structure of the Internet media and democracy, especially the public sphere. As for the detailed analysis criteria, based on the conditions of the public sphere suggested by Habermas, the possibility and risk factors of democracy consolidation in the current Korean Internet public sphere were examined. As a result of the analysis, first, the public sphere of the Internet media in Korea has participatory openness and has developed into a space for independent and intersubjective debate. Second, the Internet media, along with the offline media, are the main information providers, intermediaries, and converging agents of the Internet public sphere. Third, the factors that revitalized the public sphere of the Internet media were the formation of the Internet political forum and the integration of interests.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.