The term characterized by the execution of
the political public sphere, but is not a part of the public sphere, in fact exists in opposition to it. HINT: Includes courts, police, etc.

A framework that seeks to expand knowledge production but actually secures a narrow definition of national culture consistent with imperial aims. EXAMPLES: dividing popular and national culture, defining democracy through the state and state institutions and maintaining social and racial inequality.

A site in which the public congregates freely for public address. Maintained as a central symbolic role in the production and reproduction of democratic societies.

A realm of our
social life in which something approaching public opinion can be formed. A place where educated people can read together and come to a rational consensus. HINT: inclusion in this requires power, rationality, and education

The concept of 'publicity itself as authority.' HINT: Authorizes community actions and conversations that subvert as well as support institutional authority, that lead to consensus as well as dissent.

A realm comprised of groups in continual motion. HINT: Composition changes constantly.

The task of criticism and control through which a public
body of citizens informally or formally practices as a method of exerting pressure on ruling structures. EXAMPLE: newspapers, voting.

The manufacture of culture by institutions that determine what culture is appropriate and correct to consume regardless of public opinion.

This term has emerged as a replacement for "public." HINT: This has a dangerous potential for appropriation by museums because this term can be already practicing and producing culture elsewhere.