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Public is about the what of belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; opposed to 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 also refers to the general body of mankind, or of a nation, state, or community; the people, indefinitely; as, the public; also, a particular body or aggregation 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

1. Dewey, John. Public & Its Problems, Swallow Press, June 1954, .
2. 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, .
3. 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, .
4. Hannay, Alastair. On the Public, Routledge; 1 edition, July 13, 2005, .
5. Kierkegaard, Soren. A Literary Review (Penguin Classics), Alastair Hannay (Translator), Penguin Classics, March 26, 2002, .
6. Lippmann, Walter. The Phantom Public (Library of Conservative Thought), Transaction Publishers; Reprint edition, January 1, 1993, .
7. . The New Public: Professional Communication and the Means of Social Influence, (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies), Cambridge University Press, September 28, 1997, .
8. Sennett, Richard. The Fall of Public Man W. W. Norton & Company; Reissue edition, June 1992, .

See also

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• Public access
• Public administration
• Public affairs
• Public art
• Public broadcasting
• Public choice
• Public company
• Public defender
• Public domain
• Public editor
• Public eye
• Public finance
• Public good
• Public health
• Public house
• Public inquiry
• Public interest
• Public Ivies
• Public key
• Public law
• Public lecture
• Public library
• Public nudity
• Public ownership
• Public policy
• Public radio
• Public relations
• Public road
• Public safety
• Public school
• Public sector
• Public services
• Public space
• Public speaking
• Public sphere
• Public transport
• Public university
• Public utility
• Public works
• access specifier "public"

• Private