Esfera Pública e Sistema Midíatico: tensões entre visibilidade e discutibilidade

Abstract

This paper explores the advantages and the problems from the conceptual repartition of the public sphere in visibility and discutibility (discutibilidade). These advantages and problems will be assessed by what this repartition offers to interpret the media's political functions. About the advantages, I will underline the contributions brought to overcome the analytic perspectives of the research tradition known as media malaise. About the problems, the article will contest the statement that the habermasian theoretical framework would have few empiric potential because the visibility would be more influential than the discutibility. That statement is objected alleging that the Habermas' two-track model of power circulation foresees an intersection between different loci and discursive arenas.

Keywords

• Public sphere
• Media System
• Deliberative Democracy