Habermas on Strategic and Communicative Action

Johnson, James Turner

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“…& Gutiérrez, M. Interculturality and communicative rationality: young migrants and their relationships in the online social networks in Spain 1997). This protagonism has already been pointed out in several papers that explain Habermas' contributions (Johnson, 1991;Soler & Flecha, 2010), raise new dialogic epistemologies in the social research field (Sordé & Ojala, 2010), or analyse social situations in light of the communicative rationality (White, 2012;Serradell & Munté, 2010). The approach of the communicative rationality is also relevant for the research of communication in the Internet and it is not an old-fashioned theory, as some Internet theorists argue, instead, it is especially productive for the critical analysis of the web (Dahlberg, 2001).…”

Section: Communicative Rationality For the Analysis Of The Interactiomentioning

confidence: 99%

Interculturality and communicative rationality: young migrants and their relationships in the online social networks in Spain

2015

Communication & Society

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Do social network sites promote intercultural relationships between young migrants? Does this type of interaction have an influence on the creation of their digital identity? In order to answer these questions, we will analyse part of the results obtained in the fieldwork carried out in the project "The Social Relations of the Young Migrants in Internet from the Intercultural Perspective" (CSO2011-24376). The Habermasian concept of communicative rationality has been used as the most convenient logic for the creation of intercultural communicative interactions. This theory has been applied in our analysis of the SNS interactions observed in 13 focus groups consisting of young migrants and non-migrants in Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao. This analysis is based on the four different social actions described by Habermas (strategic action, normatively regulated action, dramaturgical action and communicative action), and then the dimensions and indicators have been extracted in order to identify the interactions in the online social networks. This paper shows that the youth's online communicative practices tend to be mainly dramaturgical. Through their online practices, they try to create a digital identity and empower their own representation as well as the others'. Thus, they do not respond to a communicative rationality of interaction that encourages intercultural communication.

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Section: Communicative Rationality For the Analysis Of The Interactiomentioning

confidence: 99%

Interculturality and communicative rationality: young migrants and their relationships in the online social networks in Spain

2015

Communication & Society

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“…140;Johnson, 1991). Following Selman, between the ages of 7 and 12 (Selman's Level 2 of development) children develop the ability to 'differentiate between the outer and the inner world of a person, to impute intentions and need dispositions, and to distinguish intentional from unintentional acts.'…”

Section: Cognitive and Epistemic Features Of Transparency And Social mentioning

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The concept of transparency in International Relations: Towards a critical approach

McCarthy

Fluck

2016

European Journal of International Relations

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Transparency is an important concept in International Relations. The possibility of realizing transparency in practice operates as a central analytical axis defining distinct positions on core theoretical problems within the field, from the security dilemma to the function of international institutions and beyond. As a political practice, the pursuit of transparent governance is a dominant feature of global politics, promoted by a wide range of actors across a vast range of issue areas, from nuclear proliferation, to internet governance, to the politics of foreign aid. Yet, despite its importance, precisely what transparency means or how the concept is understood is frequently ill-defined by academics and policymakers alike. As a result, the epistemological and ontological underpinnings of approaches to transparency in International Relations often sit in tension with their wider theoretical commitments. This article will examine the three primary understandings of transparency used in International Relations in order to unpack these commitments. It finds that while transparency is often explicitly conceptualized as a property of information, particularly within rationalist scholarship, this understanding rests upon an unarticulated set of sociological assumptions. This analysis suggests that conceptualizing 'transparency as information' without a wider sociology of knowledge production is highly problematic, potentially obscuring our ability to recognize transparent practices in global governance. Understanding transparency as dialogue, as a social practice rooted in shared cognitive capacities and epistemic

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“…Communicative action, according to Habermas (1981, 81), 'refers to the interaction of at least two subjects capable of speech and action, who establish interpersonal relations (whether by verbal or extra-verbal means)'. Communicative action refers to the deployment of (reasoned) deliberation in social interaction (Habermas 2001), and emphasizes the need for actors to engage in 'cooperative negotiation' of their situation to reach mutual understanding and interpretation of their situation (Habermas 1981(Habermas , 2001Johnson 1991). This can transform multinationally diverse societies into what Habermas (1981, 13) calls 'communication communities.'…”

Section: Reading the Multinational City With Habermasmentioning

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Mediated multinational urbanism: a Johannesburg exemplar

Katsaura

Abe

2016

Social Dynamics

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With increased international immigration, South African cities have come to contend with the threat of a violent multinational urbanism. Xenophobia, in its violent and symbolic manifestations, signifies this challenge. From an empirical grounding in Johannesburg, this paper explores the possibility of living together in contexts of multinational urbanism. It argues that strategic action and communicative action, in the Habermasian sense, are essential to the everyday mediation of multinational urbanism.

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Habermas on Strategic and Communicative Action

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Interculturality and communicative rationality: young migrants and their relationships in the online social networks in Spain

Interculturality and communicative rationality: young migrants and their relationships in the online social networks in Spain

The concept of transparency in International Relations: Towards a critical approach

Mediated multinational urbanism: a Johannesburg exemplar

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