ABC posted an article "Justin Bieber Deportation Petition Gets White House Attention,"on January 31st (today) regarding a petition to try and deport Justin Bieber. In the article it mentiones that as of today, there are 223,269 signatures on a petition that was started this month on the "We The People" website, after Bieber was arrested for a DUI. The petition calls for the government to revoke the green card of 19 year-old pop star and notorious trouble maker, Justin Bieber. Although there is no answer quite yet, the White House Press Secretary says that there will be an answer regarding his citizen status soon. Typically this is taken care of by Homeland Security, but the press and attention this petition is receiving is making the White House pressured to step up and say something.
This relates to this weeks reading of the Public Sphere and how much the policial public sphere has changed since 1974. In the article they consider the public sphere to be newspapers, magazines, and radio but now it is much more broad than that. Not only do we have those influential factors, but the internet is starting to play a large role in our government. The fact that we can now get over 200,000 people to sign a petition would be nearly unheard of before the internet era. Also, it pushes the government to actually make a change. Is this a good sign for the future of our country? I personally love that we can make changes
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Yes, this is a great connection to the public sphere. I think Habermas would have been angry that this was discussed in the public sphere, but I'm not sure I would agree with him. As we move to the public sphere tomorrow, we might bring this topic up!!
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