ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the rise of a new model of intellectuals, one based on the traditional roles critic and cultural intermediary. Democratic deliberation the lifeblood of the democratic state can be redefined as deliberation that deals with any production, artifact, trope or symbol whose publicity is sufficient to permit articulated dissent and advocacy. The discourse was profoundly inspired by philosophy and found echoes in academic or highly sophisticated journals and magazines such as Parachute or Wired, in the UK. Television is mostly concerned with consensus narratives is rarely questioned. Henry Jenkins's research into popular cultural suggests ways that the democratic and aesthetic deliberation of fans seeps into the production of television. A complementary approach to the widening of the public sphere in direction of culture and virtuality could be to re-interpret this sphere in terms of cultural citizenship and cultural rights.
