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Coffeehouse Discourse Essay

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Introduction
With the introduction of the public sphere over the last 200 years, there has been an opportunity for a wider range of ways to communicate, and with the introduction of modern technology, the opportunities have become endless (McKeem 2005). To understand the implications of the public sphere, it is vital to first understand what exactly the ‘public sphere’ is. According to theorist Jürgen Habermas, the public sphere refers to the realm of social life in which something approaching public opinion may be formed; where citizens begin to behave as a single entity when they are able to confer with little to no restrictions, more specifically, with the guarantee of their freedom of assembly and association and freedom of expression …show more content…

Conversely, the postmodernist approach views these changes as a positive thing as they view technology as a way to create an equal access to information for people from different backgrounds (McKee, 2005). The goal of this paper is to prove that ‘coffeehouse discourse’ has not diminished due to computer-mediated communication, rather has been propelled by it, to a new world order allowing for a equal access to information, and multi-state communication.
Political Implications It is first important to understand that the public sphere is a separate entity from the state; it is a place where individuals formulate their own opinions and beliefs regarding certain social, political, and economic issues without any state intervention (McKee, 2005). It is not set up, managed, or regulated by the government – it has to be separate in order to provide a counterweight to government enforced opinions. Since the rise of the Internet, the rules and regulations put in place by these governments and officials to mediate public opinion have since nearly diminished allowing for the instantaneous transfer

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