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Public is about the what of belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; opposed to Private ; as, the public treasury, a road or lake. Public is also defined as the people of a nation not affiliated with the government of that nation.

Public also refers to the general body of mankind, or of a nation, state, or community; ''the people'', indefinitely; as, ''the public''; also, a particular body or aggregation of people; as, ''an author's public''. "public Network" means a network that is regulated as a Common Carrier .

Aggens (1983), in the paper titled "Identifying different levels of public interest in participation" states: "''There is no single public, but different levels of public based on differing levels of interest and ability''".


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

# Dewey, John . ''Public & Its Problems'', Swallow Press, June 1954, ISBN 0-8040-0254-1.
# Jamie Szypka . ''I'm public and I'm okay with that'', Toledo Blade, September 1999, ISBN 0
# Habermas, Jürgen . ''The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society'', (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), The MIT Press; Reprint edition, August 28, 1991, ISBN 0-262-58108-6.
# Habermas, Jürgen . ''The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 2: Lifeword and System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason,'' Thomas McCarthy (Translator), Beacon Press; Reprint edition, 1987, ISBN 0-8070-1401-X.
# Hannay, Alastair . ''On the Public'', Routledge; 1 edition, July 13, 2005, ISBN 0-415-32792-X.
# Kierkegaard, Soren . ''A Literary Review'' (Penguin Classics), Alastair Hannay (Translator), Penguin Classics, March 26, 2002, ISBN 0-14-044801-2.
# Lippmann, Walter . ''The Phantom Public'' (Library of Conservative Thought), Transaction Publishers; Reprint edition, January 1, 1993, ISBN 1-56000-677-3.
# Mayhew, Leon H. . ''The New Public: Professional Communication and the Means of Social Influence'', (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies), Cambridge University Press, September 28, 1997, ISBN 0-521-48493-6.
# Sennett, Richard . ''The Fall of Public Man'' W. W. Norton & Company; Reissue edition, June 1992, ISBN 0-393-30879-0.


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