Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rica20 Download by: [68.80.195.161] Date: 22 March 2017, At: 08:53 Annals of the International Communication Association ISSN: 2380-8985 (Print) 2380-8977 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rica20 Trending theory of the public sphere Thomas Jacobson To cite this article: Thomas Jacobson (2017) Trending theory of the public sphere, Annals of the International Communication Association, 41:1, 70-82, DOI: 10.1080/23808985.2017.1288070 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23808985.2017.1288070 Published online: 15 Mar 2017. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 175 View related articles View Crossmark data