Ein neuer Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit und die deliberative Politik

The core of the book is an essay in which the author deals extensively with new media and their platform character, which are increasingly pushing traditional mass media – the key drivers of the ‘old’ structural change – into the background. The focal point of his reflections is the assumption that the new forms of communication are damaging the self-perception of the political public sphere as such. This would be a new structural change in the public sphere, with serious consequences for the deliberative process of democratic opinion-forming and decision-making.