Research Article

Examining The New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Within the Framework of Post-Truth and Echo Chambers

Volume: 3 Number: 1 June 26, 2025
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Examining The New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Within the Framework of Post-Truth and Echo Chambers

Abstract

The historical progress of communication technologies cannot be limited to the reshaping of the media as both a tool and a medium. The form of the media includes intellectual processes as much as the technological development process. The development process of the media has progressed hand in hand with the development process of humanity, and the level of civilisation has determined the form of the media. From the Enlightenment to the rise of the modern state, from the post-modern period to the eve of the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, media formations have presented a reflection of the characteristics of its age. The intellectual transformation experienced by humanity in the processes of Enlightenment, modernism and postmodernism as historical periods has somehow materialised itself in the formation of the media as a platform and instrument. Marshall McLuhan's The medium is the message has been concretised in the form of Post-Truth intellectuality forming the style of the new media. The use of communication instruments within the broader context of human history and their results, the evaluation of human behaviour and the development of social experience are far beyond the scope of this study. Nevertheless, following the historical path, the study details the process by which the structure of the media, which corresponds to the public sphere in the Habermasian meaning, has become a piecemeal, isolated, fragmented public sphere, which, with digitalisation, has given up professionalism, is no longer subject to any editorial control, and calls this liberation. On the way to the new structural transformation that the public sphere has undergone, the concepts that are the source of the Post-Truth phenomenon, which represents a historical process and is also an expression of an intellectual process, are explained, and then its relationality with Echo Chambers is focused. In the last section, the possible social consequences of the publicness fragmented by the formation of Echo Chambers are discussed through the notions of subject and negotiation.

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References

  1. Allcott, H. ve Gentzkow, M., (2017). “Social media and fake news in the 2016 election”. Journal of economic perspectives, Volume 31, Number 2, ss. 211-236.

Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

New Media

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

June 26, 2025

Submission Date

May 27, 2025

Acceptance Date

June 17, 2025

Published in Issue

Year 2025 Volume: 3 Number: 1

APA
Yıldırım, B., & Bulduklu, Y. (2025). Examining The New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Within the Framework of Post-Truth and Echo Chambers. Eurasian Journal of Media Communication and Culture Studies, 3(1), 71-92. https://doi.org/10.69999/emedia.1707519
AMA
1.Yıldırım B, Bulduklu Y. Examining The New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Within the Framework of Post-Truth and Echo Chambers. EMEDIA. 2025;3(1):71-92. doi:10.69999/emedia.1707519
Chicago
Yıldırım, Berkay, and Yasin Bulduklu. 2025. “Examining The New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Within the Framework of Post-Truth and Echo Chambers”. Eurasian Journal of Media Communication and Culture Studies 3 (1): 71-92. https://doi.org/10.69999/emedia.1707519.
EndNote
Yıldırım B, Bulduklu Y (June 1, 2025) Examining The New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Within the Framework of Post-Truth and Echo Chambers. Eurasian Journal of Media Communication and Culture Studies 3 1 71–92.
IEEE
[1]B. Yıldırım and Y. Bulduklu, “Examining The New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Within the Framework of Post-Truth and Echo Chambers”, EMEDIA, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 71–92, June 2025, doi: 10.69999/emedia.1707519.
ISNAD
Yıldırım, Berkay - Bulduklu, Yasin. “Examining The New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Within the Framework of Post-Truth and Echo Chambers”. Eurasian Journal of Media Communication and Culture Studies 3/1 (June 1, 2025): 71-92. https://doi.org/10.69999/emedia.1707519.
JAMA
1.Yıldırım B, Bulduklu Y. Examining The New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Within the Framework of Post-Truth and Echo Chambers. EMEDIA. 2025;3:71–92.
MLA
Yıldırım, Berkay, and Yasin Bulduklu. “Examining The New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Within the Framework of Post-Truth and Echo Chambers”. Eurasian Journal of Media Communication and Culture Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, June 2025, pp. 71-92, doi:10.69999/emedia.1707519.
Vancouver
1.Berkay Yıldırım, Yasin Bulduklu. Examining The New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Within the Framework of Post-Truth and Echo Chambers. EMEDIA. 2025 Jun. 1;3(1):71-92. doi:10.69999/emedia.1707519