Transformative democracy in the age of second modernity: Cosmopolitanization, communicative agency and the reflexive subject

New Media and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-44

  Hier, Sean P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cosmopolitanism; Digitalization; Second modernity; Social movements; Socio technologies; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949099820     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444807085320     Document Type: Article

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