Published nearly 60 years ago,Jürgen Habermas'The Structural Transformation ofthe Public Sphere has had an interdisciplinary impact in the fields of political philosophy,democratic theory,and media studies.In his book Habermas constructs a model of the public sphere,and although the ap-plicability of its normative criteria has been controversial,it is indeed frequently used to test the possibili-ty of democratization in existing countries.In the digital age,the spatial imagination and the ″division″-based structural characteristics of the classical public sphere theory are greatly challenged,but digital media,as technological″actors″in Latour's sense,have undoubtedly reintroduced the possibility of a new kind of public sphere.The emergence of Internet technologies makes it necessary to revisit the normativi-ty of the public sphere,adjust its standards to adapt to the changing media realities,and thus effectively explore how the new media environment can also contribute to new democratic practices on a global scale.Therefore,it is necessary to explore the structural premises emphasized by normative public sphere theories,introduce theories of″connective politics″and ″affective publics″in an attempt to replace the ″separated″spatial imagination with the hyper″connection″of digital technologies,and integrate ″affection″into the examination of the publicity to balance the liberalism's absolute emphasis on″rationality″in polit-ical life.
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