TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilhelm,Anthony G.
TI  - Democracy in the digital age: challenges to political life in cyberspace 
SN  - 0415924359
U1  - 324.02854678 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York, London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Political participation
KW  - Computer network resources
KW  - Internet
KW  - World Wide Web
N1  - 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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