Irony is alive and well
Poor Habermas. Or poor me. In investigating ways that Habermasian theory has been applied to research, what seems to be the widest application is a language action perspective approach to online communities. In other instances, it is used as a framework to show participatory models of communication in education. However, I have not found any applications of his model to analyses of public discourse or political discourse (hence the poor me).
What is ironic in all of this is that despite the large application of Habermas’ theories to the online environment, Habermas apparently does not have a website. In this Eurozine article , Habermas’ old school attempt at revolution is thwarted by his reliance on traditional information dissemination. (I originally found this site via this blog: Language Log ).
