Idea on the Individual's perspective of public

One of the primary notions of the Department of Public Address is the notion of the public as the realm of communication between various "private" entities, whether they be individuals of groups. Starting from the perspecitve of an individual, everything outside of self is to varying degrees "public". In a typical amerincan home (assumin g cohabitation) there are private and "common" spaces, in whihc different levels of agency are available to the individual. Extending from there, each person (and groups of people) has various locations such as work, school, regularily patronized coughy shops, bars, recreation centers, internet forums etc. that they are familiar with. These spaces are more public than home, but less public than an unfamiliar establishment, or a plaza (assuming the individual is not a habitual plaza goer). Thus we can conceptualize "the public" from an individual's perspective as a series of broadening spheres of varying privateness/publicness.