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providing a forum for public discourse.

central arena for societal communication where the citizenry expresses opinions, debates problems of general concern and develops collective solutions.

Journalists in the digital age should, within their means, enable safe spaces for public debate—acting as conversation leaders,87 information verifiers and amplifiers of varied perspectives.

Andreas Hepp’s formulation of “deep mediatization” points a further way out of determinism. Under this condition, Hepp writes, “all elements of our social world are intricately related to digital media and their underlying infrastructures.”28 If society has become so thoroughly mediated, how could we expect democracy to emerge in not-especially-dem