Democracy and New Media
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2003), x, 385 pp.
Contains index
Series: Media in Transition
ISBN 978-0-262-27629-0 (ebook); 0-262-10101-7 (print)
"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." (Publisher description)
1 Introduction: The Digital Revolution, the Informed Citizen, and the Culture of Democracy / Henry Jenkins and David Thorburn, 1
I: HOW DEMOCRATIC IS CYBERSPACE?
2 Technologies of Freedom? / Lloyd Morrisett, 21
3 Which Technology and Which Democracy? / Benjamin R. Barber, 33
4 Click Here for Democracy: A History and Critique of an Information-Based Model of Citizenship / Michael Schudson, 49
5 Growing a Democratic Culture: John Commons on the Wiring of Civil Society / Philip E. Agre, 61
6 Reports of the Close Relationship between Democracy and the Internet May Have Been Exaggerated / Doug Schuler, 69
7 Are Virtual and Democratic Communities Feasible? / Amitai Etzioni, 85
8 Who Needs Politics? Who Needs People? The Ironies of Democracy in Cyberspace / Roger Hurwitz, 101
9 Democracy and Cyberspace: First Principles / Ira Magaziner with response by Benjamin Barber, 113
10 Digital Democracy and the New Age of Reason / David Winston, 133
11 Voting, Campaigns, and Elections in the Future: Looking Back from 2008 / Nolan A. Bowie, 143
II: GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS
12 Democracy and New Media in Developing Nations: Opportunities and Challenges / Adam Clayton Powell III, 171
13 Will the Internet Spoil Fidel Castro's Cuba? / Cristina Venegas, 179
14 Ethnic Diversity, "Race," and the Cultural Political Economy of Cyberspace / Andrew Jakubowicz, 203
15 Documenting Democratization: New Media Practices in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Ashley Dawson, 225
III: NEWS AND INFORMATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE
16 The Frequencies of Public Writing: Tomb, Tome, and Time as Technologies of the Public / John Hartley, 247
17 Journalism in a Digital Age / Christopher Harper, 271
18 Hypertext and Journalism: Audiences Respond to Competing News Narratives / Robert Huesca and Brenda Dervin, 281
19 Beyond the Global and the Local: Media Systems and Journalism in the Global Network Paradigm / Ingrid Volkmer, 309
20 Resource Journalism: A Model for New Media / Ellen Hume, 331
21 What Is Information? The Flow of Bits and the Control of Chaos / David Sholle, 343
22 That Withered Paradigm: The Web, the Expert and the Information Hegemony / Peter Walsh, 365
I: HOW DEMOCRATIC IS CYBERSPACE?
2 Technologies of Freedom? / Lloyd Morrisett, 21
3 Which Technology and Which Democracy? / Benjamin R. Barber, 33
4 Click Here for Democracy: A History and Critique of an Information-Based Model of Citizenship / Michael Schudson, 49
5 Growing a Democratic Culture: John Commons on the Wiring of Civil Society / Philip E. Agre, 61
6 Reports of the Close Relationship between Democracy and the Internet May Have Been Exaggerated / Doug Schuler, 69
7 Are Virtual and Democratic Communities Feasible? / Amitai Etzioni, 85
8 Who Needs Politics? Who Needs People? The Ironies of Democracy in Cyberspace / Roger Hurwitz, 101
9 Democracy and Cyberspace: First Principles / Ira Magaziner with response by Benjamin Barber, 113
10 Digital Democracy and the New Age of Reason / David Winston, 133
11 Voting, Campaigns, and Elections in the Future: Looking Back from 2008 / Nolan A. Bowie, 143
II: GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS
12 Democracy and New Media in Developing Nations: Opportunities and Challenges / Adam Clayton Powell III, 171
13 Will the Internet Spoil Fidel Castro's Cuba? / Cristina Venegas, 179
14 Ethnic Diversity, "Race," and the Cultural Political Economy of Cyberspace / Andrew Jakubowicz, 203
15 Documenting Democratization: New Media Practices in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Ashley Dawson, 225
III: NEWS AND INFORMATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE
16 The Frequencies of Public Writing: Tomb, Tome, and Time as Technologies of the Public / John Hartley, 247
17 Journalism in a Digital Age / Christopher Harper, 271
18 Hypertext and Journalism: Audiences Respond to Competing News Narratives / Robert Huesca and Brenda Dervin, 281
19 Beyond the Global and the Local: Media Systems and Journalism in the Global Network Paradigm / Ingrid Volkmer, 309
20 Resource Journalism: A Model for New Media / Ellen Hume, 331
21 What Is Information? The Flow of Bits and the Control of Chaos / David Sholle, 343
22 That Withered Paradigm: The Web, the Expert and the Information Hegemony / Peter Walsh, 365
