Democracy Online: The Prospects for Political Renewal Through the InternetPeter M. Shane Psychology Press, 2004 - 279 pages Taking a multidisciplinary approach that they identify as a "cyber-realist research agenda," the contributors to this volume examine the prospects for electronic democracy in terms of its form and practice--while avoiding the pitfall of treating the benefits of electronic democracy as being self-evident. The debates question what electronic democracy needs to accomplish in order to revitalize democracy and what the current state of electronic democracy can teach us about the challenges and opportunities for implementing democratic technology initiatives. |
Contents
Technologies for Democracy | 3 |
Unchat Democratic Solution for a Wired World | 21 |
Cyberjuries A Model of Deliberative Democracy? | 35 |
Expanding Dialogue The Internet Public Sphere and Transnational Democracy | 47 |
Electronic Democracy and Democratic Revitalization | 63 |
The Electronic Federalist The Internet and the Eclectic Institutionalization of Democratic Legitimacy | 65 |
Global Governance and Electronic Democracy EPolitics as a Multidimensional Experience | 83 |
Interactivity Equality and the Prospects for Electronic Democracy A Review | 95 |
Digital Deliberation Engaging the Public Through Online Policy Dialogues | 155 |
Participation Deliberative Democracy and the Internet Lessons from a National Forum on Commercial Vehicle Safety | 167 |
InternetBased Political Discourse A Case Study of Electronic Democracy in Hoogeveen | 181 |
The League of Women Voters DemocracyNet DNet An Exercise in Online Civic Engagement | 195 |
Social Psychological and Political Contexts for Electronic Democracy | 207 |
Virtual Distance and Americas Changing Sense of Community | 209 |
Access Skill and Motivation in Online Political Discussion Testing Cyberrealism | 225 |
Virtual Deliberation Knowledge from Online Interaction Versus Ordinary Discussion | 239 |
Online Deliberation Possibilities of the Internet for Deliberative Democracy | 109 |
Hacktivism and the Future of Democratic Discourse | 123 |
ICANN and Electronic Democratic Deficit | 141 |
The Lessons of Electronic Democracy Practice | 153 |
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