Megan Aragon: Mitchell & Kellner on Habermas

I enjoyed reading this article because it was interesting to see Habermas's point of view of the public sphere and modernism/postmodernism. I am more of a modernist, however I agree with some things that postmodernists believe. But I appreicate the fact Habermas is willing to have an open mind and try to solve issues that is best for everyone. The bourgeois public sphere gives everyone the opportunity to speak for themselves. Kellner says that the bourgeois public sphere revealed Habermas's interpretation which is to mediate between the private concerns of individuals of their familial, economic and social life contrasting to the demands and concerns of social and public life. I didn't understand this completely. As I read further into the article, I believe what Kellner is trying to say is that Habermas says that the media, the big businesses, and the powerful positions of the economic corporations have too much control over our individual power and are the ones who causes conflicts, or prevent us from actually find a solution to the conflicts. So when Kellner and Mitchell mentions that it seems that Habermas tries to find a solution for everyone, they are saying that many of us are not actually listening, yet we do not realize that we not doing any good by being enclosed to only our opinions but yet try to listen to other point of views. We might actually get somewhere by simply listening to others.