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'''Public''' is of or pertaining to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; opposed to [[Private sector|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 to the general body of mankind, or of a nation, state, or community; ''the people'', indefinitely; as, ''the public''; also, a particular body or aggretion 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==
# [[John Dewey|Dewey, John]]. ''Public & Its Problems'', Swallow Press, June 1954, ISBN 0-8040-0254-1.
# [[Jürgen Habermas|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.
# [[Jürgen Habermas|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.
# [[Alastair Hannay|Hannay, Alastair]]. ''On the Public'', Routledge; 1 edition, July 13, 2005, ISBN 0-415-32792-X.
# [[Soren Kierkegaard|Kierkegaard, Soren]]. ''A Literary Review'' (Penguin Classics), Alastair Hannay (Translator), Penguin Classics, March 26, 2002, ISBN 0-14-044801-2.
# [[Walter Lippmann|Lippmann, Walter]]. ''The Phantom Public'' (Library of Conservative Thought), Transaction Publishers; Reprint edition, January 1, 1993, ISBN 1-56000-677-3.
# [[Leon H. Mayhew|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.
# [[Richard Sennett|Sennett, Richard]]. ''The Fall of Public Man'' W. W. Norton & Company; Reissue edition, June 1992, ISBN 0-393-30879-0.
==See also==
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*[[Public access]]
*[[Public administration]]
*[[Public affairs]]
*[[Public art]]
*[[Public broadcasting]]
*[[Public choice]]
*[[Public company]]
*[[Public debate]]
*[[Public defender]]
*[[Public domain]]
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*[[Public editor]]
*[[Public eye]]
*[[Public figure]]
*[[Public finance]]
*[[Public good]]
*[[Public health]]
*[[Public house]]
*[[Public inquiry]]
*[[Public interest]]
*[[Public Ivies]]
*[[Public key]]
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*[[Public law]]
*[[Public lecture]]
*[[Public library]]
*[[Public network]]
*[[Public nudity]]
*[[Public opinion]]
*[[Public ownership]]
*[[Public policy]]
*[[Public radio]]
*[[Public relations]]
*[[Public road]]
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*[[Public safety]]
*[[Public school]]
*[[Public sector]]
*[[Public services]]
*[[Public space]]
*[[Public speaking]]
*[[Public sphere]]
*[[Public transport]]
*[[Public university]]
*[[Public utility]]
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*[[Public works]]
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*[[Privacy|Private]]
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