Does the internet create democracy?

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Distrust of representation: Habermas on the public sphere	Media, Culture & Society	Language and Literature: Philology. Linguistics: Communication. Mass media Social Sciences: Sociology (General) Social Sciences	63	1993
Feminism, the public sphere, media and democracy	Media, Culture & Society	Language and Literature: Philology. Linguistics: Communication. Mass media Social Sciences: Sociology (General) Social Sciences	42	1993
Intellectuals and new technologies	Media, Culture & Society	Language and Literature: Philology. Linguistics: Communication. Mass media Social Sciences: Sociology (General) Social Sciences	13	1995
The alternative public realm: the organization of the 1980s anti-nuclear press in West Germany and Britain	Media, Culture & Society	Language and Literature: Philology. Linguistics: Communication. Mass media Social Sciences: Sociology (General) Social Sciences	23	1988
New Means of Communication: New Questions for the Left	Media, Culture & Society	Language and Literature: Philology. Linguistics: Communication. Mass media Social Sciences: Sociology (General) Social Sciences	5	1980

Title	Journal	Journal Categories	Citations	Publication Date
Online democracy: Applying Hannah Arendt's model of democracy to the internet	Theoria	Philosophy. Psychology. Religion: Philosophy (General)		2023
Jesus Comes to South Africa: Black Twitter as Citizen Journalism in South African Politics	African Journalism Studies	Social Sciences Language and Literature: Philology. Linguistics: Communication. Mass media	9	2019
Can the internet promote democracy? A cross-country study based on dynamic panel data models	Information Technology for Development	Social Sciences: Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform Bibliography. Library science. Information resources Bibliography. Library science. Information resources: Information resources (General) Social Sciences	10	2017
Citizen Journalism and Democratisation of Mainstream Media in Rwanda	African Journalism Studies	Social Sciences Language and Literature: Philology. Linguistics: Communication. Mass media	3	2017
Reconnoitering the role of (citizen) journalism ethics in the emerging networked public sphere	Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies		5	2014

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Language and Literature: Philology. Linguistics: Communication. Mass media	6
Social Sciences	6
Political science: Political institutions and public administration (General)	2
Social Sciences: Sociology (General)	1
Science: Science (General): Cybernetics: Information theory	1
Medicine: Medicine (General): Medical technology	1
Medicine: Medicine (General): Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics	1
Medicine: Medicine (General)	1
Geography. Anthropology. Recreation: Environmental sciences	1
Social Sciences: Commerce: Business	1
Geography. Anthropology. Recreation: Human ecology. Anthropogeography: Settlements: Cities. Urban geography	1
Social Sciences: Communities. Classes. Races: Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology	1
Political science	1
Social Sciences: Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform	1
Bibliography. Library science. Information resources	1
Bibliography. Library science. Information resources: Information resources (General)	1
Philosophy. Psychology. Religion: Philosophy (General)	1
Philosophy. Psychology. Religion: Psychology	1
Medicine: Internal medicine: Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry: Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system: Psychiatry	1

The category Language and Literature: Philology. Linguistics: Communication. Mass media 6 is the most commonly referenced area in studies that cite this article. The first research to cite this article was titled Co-constructing local meanings for child health indicators in community-based information systems: The UThukela District Child Survival Project in KwaZulu-Natal and was published in 2007. The most recent citation comes from a 2023 study titled Online democracy: Applying Hannah Arendt's model of democracy to the internet. This article reached its peak citation in 2014, with 3 citations. It has been cited in 12 different journals, 8% of which are open access. Among related journals, the African Journalism Studies cited this research the most, with 2 citations. The chart below illustrates the annual citation trends for this article.

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