Publicy is the response from public institutions a private person is able to elicit . It is the ability of an individual to represent itself or information about itself to the other. Publicy is broader than extraversion and includes the concepts of identity and content promotion. What is considered public differs among cultures and individuals, but holds basic common themes.

The concept of publicy is often understood as the opposite of privacy

Privacy

Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively...

. This is only true however, in case both concepts relate to one and other in an equilibrium of mutually exclusive

Mutually exclusive

In layman's terms, two events are mutually exclusive if they cannot occur at the same time. An example is tossing a coin once, which can result in either heads or tails, but not both....

 bipartition. Its definition has evolved against a background of interpreting new institutionalism

New institutionalism

New institutionalism or neoinstitutionalism is a theory that focuses on developing a sociological view of institutions--the way they interact and the way they affect society...

 and can be extended by replacing person by agent; its meaning becomes apparent in the context of cross-border migration, describing migrants entering the domain of an unexplored public sphere

Public sphere

The public sphere is an area in social life where individuals can come together to freely discuss and identify societal problems, and through that discussion influence political action...

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Source

Reference: University of Amsterdam online catalog, 313: SCR 8813

Selected bibliography

1. 1. Habermas, Jürgen
      Jürgen Habermas
      Jürgen Habermas is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theory on the concepts of 'communicative rationality' and the 'public sphere'...
      
      . 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, ISBN 0-262-58108-6.
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