id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_dezjn4mzqjaddc3fde46cnwf54 Sarah Brenne Political Discussion on Social Media and the Public Sphere 2016 6 .pdf application/pdf 5270 367 54 argues that social media fails as a functional public sphere; political myths, power, and mimesis drive social media users Keywords Social Media, Public Sphere, Civic have argued that social media is a new form of Public Sphere. public sphere, political discussion on social media is subject Social media mimics a public sphere in that it provides a the public sphere in relation to the Internet and social media social media as a functional public sphere is based on Social media fails as a public sphere in Habermas's terms. politics on social media creates a cynical public body [15]. discussion on social media, in the form of political myths, in 274 Political Discussion on Social Media and the Public Sphere 274 Political Discussion on Social Media and the Public Sphere 274 Political Discussion on Social Media and the Public Sphere that political myths and discourse on social media are ./cache/work_dezjn4mzqjaddc3fde46cnwf54.pdf ./txt/work_dezjn4mzqjaddc3fde46cnwf54.txt