Democracy and new media
By: edited by Henry Jenkins and David Thorburn ; associate editor, Brad Seawell
Contributors: Jenkins, Henry, 1958-; Thorburn, David, Ph. D; Seawell, Brad
Series: Media in transition
Publisher: MIT Press; The MIT Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
Subjects: Democracy; Communication -- Political aspects; Information society -- Political aspects; Information technology -- Political aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the digital revolution, the informed citizen, and the culture of democracy / Henry Jenkins and David Thorburn; title: Technologies of freedom? / Lloyd Morrisett; title: Which technology and which democracy? / Benjamin R. Barber; title: Click here for democracy: a history and critique of an information-based model of citizenship / Michael Schudson; title: Growing a democratic culture: john commons on the wiring of civil society / Philip E. Agre; title: Reports of the close relationship between democracy and the internet may have been exaggerated / Doug Schuler; title: Are virtual and democratic communities feasible? / Amitai Etzioni; title: Who needs politics? Who needs people? The ironies of democracy in cyberspace / Roger Hurwitz; title: Democracy and cyberspace: first principles / Ira Magaziner with response by Benjamin Barber; title: Digital democracy and the new age of reason / David Winston; title: Voting, campaigns, and elections in the future: looking back from 2008 / Nolan A. Bowie; title: Democracy and new media in developing nations: opportunities and challenges / Adam Clayton Powell III; title: Will the internet spoil Fidel Castro's Cuba? / Christina Venegas; title: Ethnic diversity, "race," and the cultural political economy of cyberspace / Andrew Jakubowicz; title: Documenting democratization: new media practices in post-apartheid South Africa / Ashley Dawson; title: The frequencies of public writing: tomb, tome, and time as technologies of the public / John Hartley; title: Journalism in a digital age / Christopher Harper; title: Hypertext and journalism: audiences respond to competing news narratives / Robert Huesca and Brenda Dervin; title: Beyond the global and the local: media systems and journalism in the global network paradigm / Ingrid Volkmer; title: Resource journalism: a model for new media / Ellen Hume; title: What is information? The flow of bits and the control of chaos / David Sholle; title: That withered paradigm: the web, the expert and the information hegemony / Peter Walsh