228 Between Private and Public
hile this chapter suggests that W bazaaris have been keeping private
matters more secret than in the past, they have not been able to make state
administration more public. Unlike earlier episodes where their actions
helped shape public opinion, they have neither joined, nor been invited to
join, the new publics of journalists, bloggers, dissident intellectuals, and
student and women’s groups that are struggling to make authority open,
accessible, and public.