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The Public Sphere, with Guest Dr. Andrew Perrin

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Does all that chatter on Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook serve a useful purpose? I certainly hope so, since I’m on all of them (well, except Pinterest)! In another first for the podcast, this week I interview Dr. Andrew Perrin, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina and my mentor, about Habermas’s idea of the public sphere. Dr. Perrin explains the concept and talks about how he has applied it in his research on American Democracy, public opinion polling, and more.

Listen: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/271472177/Episode%207.mp3

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For Further Reading

Check out Dr. Perrin’s new book, American Democracy. He summarizes the book’s central thesis here.

Read an academic paper by Dr. Perrin and I about public opinion polling (Note: you’ll need access to the journal, Annual Review of Sociology, to read this one. If you’re on a college campus you can get it electronically through your library.)

Follow Dr. Perrin on Twitter

Read an editorial about social media and the public sphere.

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