The Making of Public Space. News, Events and Opinions in the Twenty-First Century

Luc Boltanski & Arnaud Esquerre (2025) London: Polity About the book. This new book by Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre is a highly original analysis of the two key processes that shape the contemporary public sphere. On the one hand, there are the processes of news provision which select out a range of facts and events and bring them to the attention of a large number of people who have not, for the most part, experienced them directly. On the other hand, there are processes of politiciz...