... " public domain of the Salons, which developed as a result of Enlightenment thinking. As a result, Cunningham and Flew consequentially end up with a somewhat inaccurate perspective. This point is further emphasised by John Keane in his article The Media and Democracy. In this article, Keane believes that enlightenment thinkers "failed to see that their utopian vision contained several blind spots" (Keane, 1991: 35 ... not from individualism but from a mass media mechanism, and as a result, the sense of identity becomes less individual and more closely associated with ideologies, whether ...

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