Internet-based media, Europe and the political public sphere. Media Culture and Society.

Since the late 1990s, the plethora of internet-based media made it evident that the mass media had not exhausted the potential of the concept of the public sphere. But, the radically democratised access to media that this entailed indicated that the Habermasian line of theorising the public sphere needed revisions, particularly when applied to internet-based media on a supra-national scale.