Democracy and New MediaHenry Jenkins, David Thorburn, Brad Seawell MIT Press, 2004 - 385 páginas 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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Introduction The Digital Revolution the Informed Citizen and the Culture of Democracy | 1 |
How Democratic Is Cyberspace? | 19 |
Technologies of Freedom? | 21 |
Which Technology and Which Democracy? | 33 |
Click Here for Democracy A History and Critique of an InformationBased Model of Citizenship | 49 |
Growing a Democratic Culture John Commons on the Wiring of Civil Society | 61 |
Reports of the Close Relationship between Democracy and the Internet May Have Been Exaggerated | 69 |
Are Virtual and Democratic Communities Feasible? | 85 |
Will the Internet Spoil Fidel Castros Cuba? | 179 |
Ethnic Diversity Race and the Cultural Political Economy of Cyberspace | 203 |
Documenting Democratization New Media Practices in PostApartheid South Africa | 225 |
News and Information in the Digital Age | 245 |
The Frequencies of Public Writing Tomb Tome and Time as Technologies of the Public | 247 |
Journalism in a Digital Age | 271 |
Hypertext and Journalism Audiences Respond to Competing News Narratives | 281 |
Beyond the Global and the Local Media Systems and Journalism in the Global Network Paradigm | 309 |
Who Needs Politics? Who Needs People? The Ironies of Democracy in Cyberspace | 101 |
Democracy and Cyberspace First Principles | 113 |
Digital Democracy and the New Age of Reason | 133 |
Voting Campaigns and Elections in the Future Looking Back from 2008 | 143 |
Global Developments | 169 |
Democracy and New Media in Developing Nations Opportunities and Challenges | 171 |
Resource Journalism A Model for New Media | 331 |
What Is Information? The Flow of Bits and the Control of Chaos | 343 |
That Withered Paradigm The Web the Expert and the Information Hegemony | 365 |
Contributors | 373 |
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