Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, we witnessed a growing academic interest in the issue of the public sphere. Significantly fostered by the first English translation of Jurgen Habermas’ book Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (Habermas 1989/1996), research on the public sphere has provided a variety of theoretical approaches which either postulated the imminent demise of the public sphere in (late) modern democracies (Calhoun 1992; Crossley and Roberts 2004) or related the evident crisis of the (national) public sphere(s) to the growth of global tendencies rooted in the emergent trans-nationalization of media...