Jill Smith

McKee's introduction to the public sphere introduces the public sphere as a place where citizens can voice there opinions and can discuss issues with fellow citizens. Politics is probably one of the most important areas discussed in the public sphere. McKee points out that before ordinary citizens were able to participate in political decisions, there was no "public sphere" but with the introduction of democracy, the public sphere emerged as a way for people to come together to make political decisions about the way there country's are ran. From reading the introduction one get's a better understanding of how the public sphere emerged in society. Before the introduction of democracy, the public sphere was not so public, oppositions to the throwns were done in private secretly. Now, any one person could oppose the president or the head of a country (in the Western World that is) without fear of being executed. The public sphere is necessary in our society.