Democracy and new media / edited by Henry Jenkins and David Thorburn ; associate editor, Brad Seawell. - x, 385 pages ; 24 cm. - Media in transition . - Media in transition. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Digital Revolution, the Informed Citizen, and the Culture of Democracy / Technologies of Freedom? / Which Technology and Which Democracy? / Click Here for Democracy: A History and Critique of an Information-Based Model of Citizenship / Growing a Democratic Culture: John Commons on the Wiring of Civil Society / Reports of the Close Relationship between Democracy and the Internet May Have Been Exaggerated / Are Virtual and Democratic Communities Feasible? / Who Needs Politics? Who Needs People? The Ironies of Democracy in Cyberspace / Democracy and Cyberspace: First Principles / Digital Democracy and the New Age of Reason / Voting, Campaigns, and Elections in the Future: Looking Back from 2008 / Democracy and New Media in Developing Nations: Opportunities and Challenges / Will the Internet Spoil Fidel Castro's Cuba? / Ethnic Diversity, "Race," and the Cultural Political Economy of Cyberspace / Documenting Democratization: New Media Practices in Post-Apartheid South Africa / The Frequencies of Public Writing: Tomb, Tome, and Time as Technologies of the Public / Journalism in a Digital Age / Hypertext and Journalism: Audiences Respond to Competing News Narratives / Beyond the Global and the Local: Media Systems and Journalism in the Global Network Paradigm / Resource Journalism: A Model for New Media / What Is Information? The Flow of Bits and the Control of Chaos / The Withered Paradigm: The Web, the Expert and the Information Hegemony / Henry Jenkins and David Thorburn -- Lloyd Morrisett -- Benjamin R. Barber -- Michael Schudson -- Philip E. Agre -- Doug Schuler -- Amitai Etzioni -- Roger Hurwitz -- Ira Magaziner and Benjamin Barber -- David Winston -- Nolan A. Bowie -- Adam Clayton Powell III -- Cristina Venegas -- Andrew Jakubowicz -- Ashley Dawson -- John Hartley -- Christopher Harper -- Robert Huesca and Brenda Dervin -- Ingrid Volkmer -- Ellen Hume -- David Sholle -- Peter Walsh. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22.

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Democracy.
Communication--Political aspects
Information society--Political aspects
Information technology--Political aspects

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