| Description |
viii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Cyberdemocracy's "Troubled and Frothy Surface" Neofuturists, Dystopians, and Technorealists. Research on the Democratic Potential of New Communications Technologies. Beyond the Mere Smoke of Opinion -- 2. Shaping Virtual Civic Spaces. Antecedent Resources and the Threshold of Political Functioning. Inclusiveness in Online Public Life. Deliberation and Light-Speed Telecommunications Technologies. Designing a Democratic Future -- 3. Resource Requirements of Digitally Mediated Political Life. Toward a Resource Model of Telecommunications Access. Data. Methods. "Thick Description" of Teletechnology Access and Use. Noneconomic Barriers. The Causal Priority of Family and Education -- 4. Immune to Progress: Reconceptualizing America's Information and Telecommunications Underclass. A Tale of Two Cities. Expanding the Definition of Information Poverty: A Periphery-Center Model. Data and Methods. A New Classification of Information and Technology Poverty |
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5. Virtual Sounding Boards: How Deliberative is Online Political Discussion? Exploratory Questions. Why Content Analysis? Content Categories. The Vast Cyberwasteland? Irrigating the Wasteland -- 6. Designer Democracy. Becoming Digital: The Prospects for Home-Based Cyberdemocracy. Bypassing Poor Neighborhoods, Communities of Color, and Rural America. Public-Access Workstations and Community Building. Opening the Space of Flows -- 7. Catching the Red Queen: Public-Policy Renovations. The Difference Principle. Toward Ubiquitous Deployment of Advanced Services. Enhancing Deliberation in Online Political Forums. Political Multicasting: An Enduring Public Trusteeship -- Conclusion: Media Campaigns and the New International -- App. A1. Logistic Regression Analysis of Home Computer Ownership -- App. A2. Logistic Regression Analysis of Home Modem Ownership -- App. A3. Logistic Regression Analysis of Digitally Mediated Political Engagement |
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App. B. List of (Self-Identified) Political Usenet and AOL Forums |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-176) and index |
| Subject |
Political participation -- Computer network resources.
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Internet.
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World Wide Web.
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| LC no. |
99059023 |
| ISBN |
0415924359 |
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0415924367 |
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