ABSTRACT
In itself, the count of 33 websites does not generate much deeper understanding of the workings of everyday amateur experts in the digital age; compared to similar types of websites that relate to other fields, however, the number becomes interesting as it provides information about the relative prominence of different fields in the online space. Compared to, for example, websites with political journalism conducted by nonorganizational actors, the quantitative difference is noteworthy: while 33 such websites review arts and culture, only 13 deal with politics (a figure appropriated from the research by Sørensen 2013). Cultural and political journalism are obviously different types of journalism, but the uneven distribution between the political and the cultural found here is interesting in that it proposes the usefulness of regarding the public sphere through a
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cultural rather than the traditional political prism and of turning analytical attention toward the original realm of public discourse (cf., Habermas 1989).
