Democracy and New Media
by Henry Jenkins (Editor), David Thorburn (Editor)
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Henry Jenkins is the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities and the Founder/Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT.
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Democracy and New Media
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- Politics and Government, Nonfiction, Technology, Philosophy, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 320.01 — Society, government, & culture Political science Types of Government Political Science Philosophy and Theory
- LCC
- JC423 .D43 — Political Science Political theory Political theory. The state. Theories of the state Forms of the state
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