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  • 2 - The Internet, Democracy, and Misinformation

  • from Part I - Theoretical Approaches to the Disinformation Problem
  • Edited by Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr., University of Alabama, András Koltay, National University of Public Service (Hungary), Charlotte Garden, University of Minnesota
  • Book:
    Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy
    Published online:
    09 January 2025
    Print publication:
    23 January 2025, pp 37-49
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  • Summary

    The structure of society is heavily dependent upon its means of producing and distributing information. As its methods of communication change, so does a society. In Europe, for example, the invention of the printing press created what we now call the public sphere. The public sphere, in turn, facilitated the appearance of ‘public opinion’, which made possible wholly new forms of politics and governance, including the democracies we treasure today.

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