Publisher's Synopsis
Transformations of the original conceptualizations of the principle dimensions of publicness in some of the dominant streams of thought are discussed in view of the changing social, political, economic and technological considerations that could have influenced these reconceptualizations. The volume starts with the changing nature of "visibility" generated by publicity and its relation to the public and the private, then continues with the historical and conceptual changes its main generator - public discourse - has undergone in the period from print to the Internet era.
