While New Communication Technologies Like the Internet Might Offer New

question 59

Essay

While new communication technologies like the Internet might offer new opportunities for people to participate in Habermas's public sphere, explain how his concerns about how the mass media might harm democracy might be influenced by the Internet.

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Definitions:

FMRI

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, a neuroimaging procedure that measures and maps the brain's activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow.

Archival Data

Information collected and stored as records or documents from past events, used as a valuable resource for research and analysis.

Percentile Score

A statistical measure indicating the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations falls.

Marlowe-Crowne

A social desirability scale used in psychology to measure the tendency of respondents to answer questions in a manner that will be viewed favorably by others.