TY - BOOK AU - González,Ana Marta AU - Olza,Inés ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Accessing the Public Sphere: Mediation Practices in a Global World SN - 9783031573774 AV - HM621-656 PY - 2024/// CY - Cham PB - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Culture KW - Political sociology KW - Intercultural communication KW - Sociology of Culture KW - Political Sociology KW - International and Intercultural communication N1 - 1. Accessing the Public Sphere: An Introduction to the Volume -- 2. Broken Understanding: Corrupted Participation in Emerging Public Spaces -- 3. Transcultural Communication During a Misinfodemic: How Antiquated Science Communication Models and Information Deserts Enhance Vulnerability to Beliefs in False Health and Science Information -- 4. Sacred Paths to Magnanimity in a Polarized World -- 5. Toward a New Set of Practices in Intercultural Communication -- 6. Ethical Challenges for Intercultural Mediators in Preventing and Remedying Potential Unequal Access to the Public Space -- 7. The Effect of Empathic Mediation in Conflict Resolution N2 - This edited volume focuses on the (un)equal access to the public space granted to the various groups that make up hybrid and multicultural societies: i.e. majority vs minority groups, immigrants vs non-immigrants, and so forth. With ‘access to public space’ the authors refer not only to participation through discursive practices in the public arena (e.g. political, social and institutional debates) but also to a full operationalization of the knowledge, habits and opportunities attached to true citizenship. Furthermore, in contexts of inequality and sociocultural conflict, the role of mediators has always been underscored as third-party figures (in)formally acknowledged and authorized–by participants in the interaction and/or external bodies–to set the ground for mutual understanding and foster balanced communication. Such mediation can range from interpreting in legal and medical encounters to dispute-resolution practices in situations of sociocultural clash among groups or individuals. Therefore, as is shown by the contributions in this volume, (intercultural) mediators are key agents in facilitating integration and providing disadvantaged groups with effective tools to gain access to the public sphere UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57377-4 ER -