Rebooting America
Subtitle: ideas for redesigning American democracy for the internet age
By: [Fine, Sifry, Rasiej, Levy ; foreword by Esther Dyson]
Publisher: Creative Commons
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [San Francisco, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780981750903
Subjects: Politics and government; Political culture; Democracy; Forecasting; Citizen participation; Political aspects; Political participation; Information technology; History
Notes: Statement of responsibility from cover.

"21st century democracy"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: To: Micha L. Sifry, Personal Democracy Forum 2008 / Zack Exley; title: 21st century neo-enlightenment / Julie Barko Germany; title: Echo chambers = democracy / David Weinberger; title: Participatory democracy demands participation / Michael Turk; title: Winning the future in the personal democracy age / Newt Gingrich; title: Participation as sustainable cooperation in pursuit of public goals / Yochai Benkler; title: By the people, for the people / Andrew Rasiej; title: The merciful death of the Freedom of Information Act and the birth of true government transparency: a short history / Ellen Miller; title: The void we must fill / Richard C. Harwood; title: Smartmobbing democracy / Howard Rheingold; title: Weaning campaigns from old media's teat / Brad Templeton; title: The power of inclusion / Marie Wilson; title: In the beginning there were wikis / Joshua Levy; title: Saving America from its 18th-century political system / Jan Frel and Nicco Mele; title: Small "d" democracy / Susan Crawford; title: Professional politicians beware! / Aaron Swartz; title: Sidewalks for democracy online / Steven L. Clift; title: Privacy in the internet age: time to go? / Glenn Harlan Reynolds; title: Can social network sites enable political action? / danah boyd; title: In Skypeoogletubeapedia we trust / Martin Kearns; title: Grassroots activism is more than a campaign / Morra Aarons-Mele; title: Corruption, technology and constitutional design / Zephyr Teachout; title: Our voting re-public / John C. Bonifaz; title: Checks and balances reinvigorated / Craig Newmark; title: The "killer app" of public participation / Mark Murphy; title: Citizen 2.0 / Nancy E. Tate and Mary G. Wilson; title: The last top-down campaign / Joe Trippi; title: Tangled signals of democracy / Micah L. Sifry; title: Finding your obviousmeter / Matt Stoller; title: Congress reloaded / Matthew Burton; title: Beyond wargames / Douglas Rushkoff; title: The obvious answer: online voting / Allison H. Fine; title: Who needs elected officials? / Tara Hunt; title: New gadgets do not new humanity make / Avery Knapp and Tennyson McCalla; title: Deliberative democracy in theory and practice / Kaliya Hamlin; title: Government by the people / Beth Simone Noveck; title: Self-organized self-government / Scott Heiferman; title: The digital will of the people / Pablo del Real; title: Political collaborative production / Clay Shirky; title: Community information commons / Harry C. Boyte; title: The ethics of openness / Jeff Jarvis; title: Creating humane codelaw / Gene Koo; title: Digital natives as self-actualizing citizens / W. Lance Bennett; title: A millennial upgrade for American democracy / David B. Smith.