counterpublic

English

Etymology

counter- +‎ public

Pronunciation

Adjective

• (UK) enPR: kount'əpŭbʹlĭk, IPA^(key): /ˌkaʊntəˈpʌblɪk/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

Noun

• (UK) enPR: kountʹəpŭb'lĭk, IPA^(key): /ˈkaʊntəˌpʌblɪk/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

Adjective

counterpublic (not comparable)

1. Opposing or serving as a counterbalance to the dominant public.
   • 2005, Andrew J. Pierce, Media Technology and Counterpublic Spheres:

     An account of this sort provides a historicized moral foundation for a conception of counterpublic spheres more capable of undertaking a (decentered and multifaceted) critique of systematically distorted communication.

Noun

counterpublic (plural counterpublics)

1. A group that stands in opposion to the dominant public.
   • 2008, Patrick James Noonan, Creating a Counterpublic, page 5:

     In other words, with this book they form a “counterpublic” to what they saw as a dominant, adult-controlled public sphere.

   • 2010, Melissa Victoria Harris-Lacewell, Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought, page 6:

     It is incorrect to conceive of the black counterpublic as historically static or as ideologically cohesive at any given historical moment.