Audience Participation and Public Discourse Space: A Simple Article Review

Recent years have seen an explosion of researches and studies into the public sphere and the deformation of it.At one extreme,general theoretical statement about public sphere is directly developed from Habermas’s public sphere theory;they have elaborated and extended the theory and applied it to analyze the different situations in different countries.At the other,the so-called sphere has been extended,from the original cafe bar or some entity space like this to the virtual space,especially with the development of internet and the emerge of many kinds of social media;some scholars noted that the public sphere has appeared in the internet;some social media like blog,micro blog(in China as weibe),and so on have become the new form of public sphere,which is also called public discourse space.To some extend,public discourse space belongs to public sphere,but different from it.They have some similar characteristic,but they also have some difference within different time and space.For example,public discourse space is much closer to audience participation.And the audience participation is one of the important factors for the public discourse space created by media.We can say that both of the discourse space appears in the traditional media and the online media are emphasizing on the relationship between media and audience.So in this article,the author also does a simple review about public discourse space and its relationship with audience participation.