counterpublic

1. not comparableOpposing or serving as a counterbalance to the dominant public.

   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.

   2005, Andrew J. Pierce, Media Technology and Counterpublic Spheres

plural counterpublics

1. A group that stands in opposion to the dominant public.

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

   2008, Patrick James Noonan, Creating a Counterpublic, page 5

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

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