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Democracy in the digital age : challenges to political life in cyberspace / Anthony G. Wilhelm.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; London : Routledge, 2000Description: viii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415924359
  • 9780415924351
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 324.02854678
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Cyberdemocracy's "Troubled and Frothy Surface" -- Neofuturists, Dystopians, and Technorealists -- Research on the Democratic Potential of New Communications Technologies -- Beyond the Mere Smoke of Opinion -- 2. Shaping Virtual Civic Spaces -- Antecedent Resources and the Threshold of Political Functioning -- Inclusiveness in Online Public Life -- Deliberation and Light-Speed Telecommunications Technologies -- Designing a Democratic Future -- 3. Resource Requirements of Digitally Mediated Political Life -- Toward a Resource Model of Telecommunications Access -- Data -- Methods -- "Thick Description" of Teletechnology Access and Use -- Noneconomic Barriers -- The Causal Priority of Family and Education -- 4. Immune to Progress: Reconceptualizing America's Information and Telecommunications Underclass -- A Tale of Two Cities -- Expanding the Definition of Information Poverty: A Periphery-Center Model -- Data and Methods -- A New Classification of Information and Technology Poverty -- 5. Virtual Sounding Boards: How Deliberative is Online Political Discussion? -- Exploratory Questions -- Why Content Analysis? -- Content Categories -- The Vast Cyberwasteland? -- Irrigating the Wasteland -- 6. Designer Democracy -- Becoming Digital: The Prospects for Home-Based Cyberdemocracy -- Bypassing Poor Neighborhoods, Communities of Color, and Rural America -- Public-Access Workstations and Community Building -- Opening the Space of Flows -- 7. Catching the Red Queen: Public-Policy Renovations -- The Difference Principle -- Toward Ubiquitous Deployment of Advanced Services -- Enhancing Deliberation in Online Political Forums -- Political Multicasting: An Enduring Public Trusteeship -- Conclusion: Media Campaigns and the New International -- App. A1. Logistic Regression Analysis of Home Computer Ownership -- App. A2. Logistic Regression Analysis of Home Modem Ownership -- App. A3. Logistic Regression Analysis of Digitally Mediated Political Engagement -- App. B. List of (Self-Identified) Political Usenet and AOL Forums -- References -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Cyberdemocracy's "Troubled and Frothy Surface" -- Neofuturists, Dystopians, and Technorealists -- Research on the Democratic Potential of New Communications Technologies -- Beyond the Mere Smoke of Opinion -- 2. Shaping Virtual Civic Spaces -- Antecedent Resources and the Threshold of Political Functioning -- Inclusiveness in Online Public Life -- Deliberation and Light-Speed Telecommunications Technologies -- Designing a Democratic Future -- 3. Resource Requirements of Digitally Mediated Political Life -- Toward a Resource Model of Telecommunications Access -- Data -- Methods -- "Thick Description" of Teletechnology Access and Use -- Noneconomic Barriers -- The Causal Priority of Family and Education -- 4. Immune to Progress: Reconceptualizing America's Information and Telecommunications Underclass -- A Tale of Two Cities -- Expanding the Definition of Information Poverty: A Periphery-Center Model -- Data and Methods -- A New Classification of Information and Technology Poverty -- 5. Virtual Sounding Boards: How Deliberative is Online Political Discussion? -- Exploratory Questions -- Why Content Analysis? -- Content Categories -- The Vast Cyberwasteland? -- Irrigating the Wasteland -- 6. Designer Democracy -- Becoming Digital: The Prospects for Home-Based Cyberdemocracy -- Bypassing Poor Neighborhoods, Communities of Color, and Rural America -- Public-Access Workstations and Community Building -- Opening the Space of Flows -- 7. Catching the Red Queen: Public-Policy Renovations -- The Difference Principle -- Toward Ubiquitous Deployment of Advanced Services -- Enhancing Deliberation in Online Political Forums -- Political Multicasting: An Enduring Public Trusteeship -- Conclusion: Media Campaigns and the New International -- App. A1. Logistic Regression Analysis of Home Computer Ownership -- App. A2. Logistic Regression Analysis of Home Modem Ownership -- App. A3. Logistic Regression Analysis of Digitally Mediated Political Engagement -- App. B. List of (Self-Identified) Political Usenet and AOL Forums -- References -- Index.

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