Purpose

In online digital spaces, the public/private distinction is challenged in many different ways. The purpose of this paper is to show that the normative order of the internet is a suitable lens through which the complex relationship of private and public norms and their impact on communication spheres and today’s and tomorrow’s dynamic public can be understood.

Design/methodology/approach

Habermas’ conception of the public sphere provides us with the ideal starting point for our normative analysis of German court cases concerning the application of public law in privately-owned online communication spaces. The normative analysis allows us to pose an important theoretical question regarding the necessity and circumstances of a codification of a (private) online order.

Findings

This research paper shows that a reconsideration of the Kantian theory enables the transcendental constitution of normativity – and of new publics, is necessary because normativity that learns from its environment can no longer be described by referring to traditional categories of, and criteria for, subjectivity. The research paper shows that the normative order of the internet is based on and produces a liquefied system characterized by self-learning normativity.

Originality/value

This paper offers a unique perspective on the norm building process in privately-owned online communication spaces and poses an important theoretical question that helps to better understand the emerging normative orders, the shift in our view on “publics” and offers a useful analytical tool for a better explain, predict and legitimize the creation of new order-internal norms.

中文翻译：

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大众时代的线上下单

目的

在在线数字空间中，公共/私人的区别以许多不同的方式受到挑战。本文的目的是表明互联网的规范秩序是一个合适的镜头，通过它可以理解私人和公共规范的复杂关系及其对传播领域和今天和明天的动态公众的影响。

设计/方法/方法

哈贝马斯的公共领域概念为我们对德国法院案件的规范分析提供了理想的起点，这些案件涉及公法在私人拥有的在线交流空间中的适用。规范分析使我们能够提出一个关于（私人）在线订单编纂的必要性和环境的重要理论问题。

发现

这篇研究论文表明，重新考虑康德理论使得规范性和新公众的先验构成是必要的，因为从环境中学习的规范性不再能够通过参考主观性的传统类别和标准来描述。研究论文表明，互联网的规范秩序基于并产生了一个以自学习规范性为特征的液化系统。

原创性/价值

本文对私有在线交流空间中的规范构建过程提供了独特的视角，并提出了一个重要的理论问题，有助于更好地理解新兴的规范秩序、我们对“公众”的看法的转变，并提供了一个有用的分析工具更好地解释、预测和合法化新秩序内部规范的创建。