Public
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Public is of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; opposed to private; as, the public treasury, a road or lake. public is also defined as the people of a nation not affiliated with the government of that nation.
Public also refers to the general body of mankind, or of a nation, state, or community; the people, indefinitely; as, the public; also, a particular body or aggregation of people; as, an author's public. "public Network" means a network that is regulated as a common carrier.
Aggens (1983), in the paper titled "Identifying different levels of public interest in participation" states: "There is no single public, but different levels of public based on differing levels of interest and ability".
[edit] Selected bibliography
- Dewey, John. Public & Its Problems, Swallow Press, June 1954, ISBN 0804002541.
- Habermas, Ju"rgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), The MIT Press; Reprint edition, August 28, 1991, ISBN 0262581086.
- Habermas, Ju"rgen. The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 2: Lifeword and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason, Thomas McCarthy (Translator), Beacon Press; Reprint edition, 1987, ISBN 080701401X.
- Hannay, Alastair. On the Public, Routledge; 1 edition, July 13, 2005, ISBN 041532792X.
- Kierkegaard, Soren. A Literary Review (Penguin Classics), Alastair Hannay (Translator), Penguin Classics, March 26, 2002, ISBN 0140448012.
- Lippmann, Walter. The Phantom Public (Library of Conservative Thought), Transaction Publishers; Reprint edition, January 1, 1993, ISBN 1560006773.
- Mayhew, Leon H.. The New Public: Professional Communication and the Means of Social Influence, (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies), Cambridge University Press, September 28, 1997, ISBN 0521484936.
- Sennet, Richard. The Fall of Public Man W. W. Norton & Company; Reissue edition, June 1992, ISBN 0393308790.
[edit] See also
- Public access
- Public administration
- Public affairs
- Public art
- Public broadcasting
- Public choice
- Public company
- Public defender
- Public design
- Public domain
- Public editor
- Public eye
- Public finance
- Public good
- Public health
- Public house
- Public inquiry
- Public interest
- Public Ivies
- Public key
- Public law
- Public lecture
- Public library
- Public network
- Public nudity
- Public ownership
- Public policy
- Public radio
- Public relations
- Public road
- Public safety
- Public school
- Public sector
- Public service
- Public space
- Public speaking
- Public sphere
- Public transport
- Public university
- Public utility
- Public works
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