{"id":3968,"date":"2010-01-29T10:06:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=3968"},"modified":"2010-01-29T10:06:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:06:53","slug":"jhabermas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/29\/jhabermas\/","title":{"rendered":"@JHabermas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  Totally snookered.  Via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kjhealy\/status\/8501520613\">Kieran Healy<\/a>, the disappointing news that <a href=\"http:\/\/jonathanstray.com\/jurgen-habermas-says-hes-not-on-twitter\">the Habermas account is fake<\/a>.  Yet more evidence that the internet is less than an ideal speech situation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not the only person to find it endlessly amusing that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J%C3%BCrgen_Habermas\">J\u00fcrgen Habermas<\/a>, octogenarian theorist of communicative rationality, has <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JHabermas\">taken to Twitter<\/a>.  (The account seems to be legit, but it&#8217;s hard to be sure.)  This is so over-determined that just last year Lauren Fisher gave a presentation entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplyzesty.com\/social-media\/habermas-twitter-blog-post\/\">If Habermas could Twitter<\/a>.&#8221;  Well, now we know.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s still trying to master the 140-character limit, though.  Here&#8217;s his latest set of tweets:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2010\/01\/habermas.jpg\" alt=\"habermas\" width=\"573\" height=\"642\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, yeah.  The internet is (in some sense) an egalitarian public sphere, but it raises the danger of fragmentation into self-reinforcing interest groups.  Remains to be seen how it will all ultimately play out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Totally snookered. Via Kieran Healy, the disappointing news that the Habermas account is fake. Yet more evidence that the internet is less than an ideal speech situation. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- I&#8217;m not the only person to find it endlessly amusing that J\u00fcrgen Habermas, octogenarian theorist of communicative rationality, has taken to Twitter. (The account seems to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}