Chapter 26 The virtual sphere (Papacharissi)

This chapter talks about the Internet as a public sphere. I think several pieces of our readings (e.g. those on the digital divides) have touched on this point: technology can faciliatate participation of the public sphere (here is "virtual sphere"), but it does not guarantee it. This also reminds me again of Lessig's "code" and "choice". And Papacharissi brings us some interesting observations, among which fragmentation and irrational discourses are particular interesting to me.