In an information society of nearly one-third of a billion people, democratic participation requires access to mediated channels and often takes place between parties whose only shared experience may come from membership in the same network. But as civil society moves online, some worrying trends are beginning to emerge. A Privacy Challenge . Robert Gellman . In the end, we shouldn t fall into the trap of thinking that we either have privacy or we do not.
Privacy is a bundle of interests.
This paper discusses some of the issues and their connection with recent discussions about community and fragmentation. The Internet, Cities and Civil Society . John B. Horrigan. There are encouraging signs of how the Internet might help build civil society, from efforts to make cities more hospitable to innovators to programs to extend technology s reach to the less well-off. But having a new space for public deliberation will not happen by accident. . .