Democracy and new media / edited by Henry Jenkins and David Thorburn ; associate editor, Brad Seawell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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Digital technology is changing our politics. The World Wide Web is already a powerful influence on the public's access to government documents, the tactics and content of political campaigns, the behavior of voters, the efforts of activists to circulate their messages, and the ways in which topics enter the public discourse. The essays collected here capture the richness of current discourse about democracy and cyberspace. Some contributors offer front-line perspectives on the impact of emerging technologies on politics, journalism, and civic experience. What happens, for example, when we increase access to information or expand the arena of free speech? Other contributors place our shifting understanding of citizenship in historical context, suggesting that notions of cyber-democracy and online community must grow out of older models of civic life. Still others consider the global flow of information and test our American conceptions of cyber-democracy against developments in other parts of the world. How, for example, do new media operate in Castro's Cuba, in post-apartheid South Africa, and in the context of multicultural debates on the Pacific Rim? For some contributors, the new technologies endanger our political culture; for others, they promise civic renewal.

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