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<div align="center"><font size="-1">UNSW MEDIA FILM & THEATRE
SEMINARS</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="-1">WEDNESDAY 23 AUGUST</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="-1">5 P.M. WEBSTER CINEMA
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<div align="center"><font size="+2"><b>The Public Sphere Thesis and
Media Sociology</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+3">Paul Jones</font></div>
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<blockquote><font size="+1">The public sphere thesis appears to be
undergoing another period of reappraisal and even revival. This has
been marked most obviously by an address on political communication
and empirical research delivered by Habermas two months ago.
This paper will situate Habermas's current position in relation to
'the young Habermas' and the public sphere thesis's complicated
relationship with empirical research in media sociology. It will
also sketch plans Paul Jones and Michael Pusey have for their ARC
research on political communication in Australia.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote><i>Paul Jones is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at UNSW. The
paperback edition of his</i> Raymond Williams's Sociology of Culture:
a critical reconstruction<i> has just been published by
Palgrave.</i></blockquote>
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<div><tt><font size="-1" color="#000000">Dr James
Donald</font></tt></div>
<div><tt><font size="-1" color="#000000">Associate Dean (Education),
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences<br>
Professor of Film Studies, School of Media, Film and
Theatre</font></tt></div>
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