Defining the Public Turn

During class today I jotted down two questions to ponder. I may need to come up with some key terms that Weisser and Flower use and define them. This will help me keep track of what they are talking about and can possibly add them to the tag cloud on the posts. However, the question I would like to answer for my own purposes is what ideas can I take from the authors' theory of the public turn to apply outside of academia? I need to think about that one more. Another one to address in another post is how to define consensus, and what to do about reaching it (spoiler alert: probably nothing)? This one I am obviously supposed to have an answer for: How does each author define/construct the public turn? Here's what I think so far: