James Bohman in After Habermas:
what makes the public sphere.
habermas talks about the dialogical qualities, Boham expands that notion saying the public sphere has to be an open forum for everyone to express their opinions and expect response. But this doesn't mean an immidiate response as you would expect from a face to face/ one on one conversation but a response indefinite, spatial and temporal.
A social space needs opening up for a particular kind of repeated and open ended interaction.
According to Boham for this to be successful technologies and institutions are required to secure the continued existence and regularise opportunities and access.
I wouldn't agree with that completely. The most important part of being in and using the public sphere to me is it's open access - by it's nature - and the spontaneous interaction this allows. It was the idea of getting out of institutions and allowing a widest possible audience to experience art and communities and getting involved in creating a shared creative space that encourages communication.
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