The political public sphere is important for democracy, and it is changing–this is how the
quintessence of Jürgen Habermas's monumental study on The Structural Transformation of …

The main purpose of this paper is to assess the validity of the contention that, over the past
few decades, the public sphere has undergone a new structural transformation. To this end …

Based on a deliberative democracy, this book uses a hermeneutic-critical methodology to
study bibliographical sources and practical issues in order to analyse the possibilities, limits …

Algorithms increasingly take on tasks traditionally performed by humans. They not only
serve as co-workers to their human counterparts but increasingly take over management …

Platform-mediated work is a particularly vibrant facet of the working world of contemporary
societies and 'an early glimpse of what capitalist societies might evolve into over the coming …

In this contribution, we argue that critical theories of the public sphere (in Habermas, but also
in Negt and Kluge as well as Fraser) leave out the socially central field of labour and labour …

This article analyzes the role of communication with delivery platform workers, drawing on
research in the United Kingdom and Brazil. It discusses the relationship between …

“Public Engagement” is a salient term that signifies industry-deployed strategies and tactics
to manage public demands for recognition and participation in the formation of public policy …

Protests differ and so do protest outcomes. This is also the case in food delivery gig work,
which is characterised by frequent labour unrest. Various cross-country analyses have …

Im Beitrag wird argumentiert, dass kritische Öffentlichkeitstheorien (bei Habermas, aber
auch bei Negt und Kluge sowie Fraser) das gesellschaftlich-zentrale Feld der Arbeit und …