• ASMITA DUBEY

The public sphere is a common world that gathers us together and yet our falling over one another. In public sphere humans organise around specific interests as social groups. It is thus, not just a site of fruitful communication and orderly representation of interests; rather an arena where notions of social justice and social order are elaborated. However, modern society is based on structures of accumulation and on separation of rules within different realms involving conflicts of interests resulting into social struggles. Public sphere acts as an interface that connects people of different cultural milieu. Nowadays, social media has become the key term in Mass and Communication studies and public discourse for characterising platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Blogspot, Vlog and Tumblr. The question now arises where is public sphere today? What mediates between individuals and society? Public sphere today is on social media, it is where opinions are formed, deliberation happens, there we simply recreate bubbles of peers-ignoring inequalities of status as in Nancy Frazers’ term we have “bracketed the inequality of status”. This paper would thus critically analyse the emergence of new cultural and political actors in this sphere comprising of Facebook, Twitter and blogs. The role of the concept of Social media for understanding public sphere critically. Social media has thus carved out distant public spaces by becoming largely disembedded from traditional institutions.

Public sphere, social media, bourgeoise, electronic democracy, twitter .

"SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE CHANGING PUBLIC SPHERE –THROUGH THE CONCEPT OF FACEBOOK AND TWITTER ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 9, page no.643-647, September-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2009385.pdf

"SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE CHANGING PUBLIC SPHERE –THROUGH THE CONCEPT OF FACEBOOK AND TWITTER ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 9, page no. pp643-647, September-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2009385.pdf