“a public space between the private domain and the state in which public opinion was formed and ‘popular’ supervision of government was established”

The public sphere is an area in social life where individuals can come together to freely discuss and identify societal problems, and through that discussion influence political action, especially government

Initially Public Sphere was good as people in the same social class (horizontally) would communicate together however as large companies take over the media, they control the info to make economic profit who collaborate with the government (vertical) – very authoritarian.

This happens to both Old and New Media as newspaper and magazine can be taken over by large conglomerates, new media is taken over by companies that own Facebook, YouTube and others.

‘The media can be held accountable for what they do and do not do’

‘public control’ ‘deregulation’