I recently came across your article “Does Habermas Understand the Internet? The Algorithmic Construction of the Blogo/Public Sphere” on gnovis and found it very useful for helping to deconstruct Benkler’s argument.

I wonder if you have any thoughts about the decline of the newspaper industry — or should I say, not so much the decline of the industry itself but the loss of the journalism newspapers produce and their functions for information aggregation and the watchdog function. Or maybe to be more forward thinking, maybe I’m just wondering what you think the place might be for professional investigative journalists and commercial journalism organizations moving forward.

Tom, PhD student