Index

Table of Contents
Series Foreword	
1	Introduction: The Digital Revolution, the Informed Citizen, and the Culture of Democracy	1
2	Technologies of Freedom?	21
3	Which Technology and Which Democracy?	33
4	Click Here for Democracy: A History and Critique of an Information-Based Model of Citizenship	49
5	Growing a Democratic Culture: John Commons on the Wiring of Civil Society	61
6	Reports of the Close Relationship between Democracy and the Internet May Have Been Exaggerated	69
7	Are Virtual and Democratic Communities Feasible?	85
8	Who Needs Politics? Who Needs People? The Ironies of Democracy in Cyberspace	101
9	Democracy and Cyberspace: First Principles	113
10	Digital Democracy and the New Age of Reason	133
11	Voting, Campaigns, and Elections in the Future: Looking Back from 2008	143
12	Democracy and New Media in Developing Nations: Opportunities and Challenges	171
13	Will the Internet Spoil Fidel Castro's Cuba?	179
14	Ethnic Diversity, "Race," and the Cultural Political Economy of Cyberspace	203
15	Documenting Democratization: New Media Practices in Post-Apartheid South Africa	225
16	The Frequencies of Public Writing: Tomb, Tome, and Time as Technologies of the Public	247
17	Journalism in a Digital Age	271
18	Hypertext and Journalism: Audiences Respond to Competing News Narratives	281
19	Beyond the Global and the Local: Media Systems and Journalism in the Global Network Paradigm	309
20	Resource Journalism: A Model for New Media	331
21	What Is Information? The Flow of Bits and the Control of Chaos	343
22	The Withered Paradigm: The Web, the Expert and the Information Hegemony	365
Contributors	373
Index	377