Cover -- Guest editorial -- Wafting spheres: much ado about nothing -- A networked public: formal and relational approaches to the public sphere -- The public as projection -- A sphere askew: operations, territory and the public in the digital age -- Theoretical and practical influences of Habermas’s global academic best seller: structural transformation of the public sphere in the United States -- No Consensus - Because Why? Interview with Maren Lehmann and Ingrid Volkmer -- The general peer: the public sphere in the age of profilicity -- Online order in the age of many publics -- The individual’s role in cybercrime prevention: internal spheres of protection and our ability to safeguard them -- Climate’s role in Earth’s shifting spheres.