| Description |
ix, 185 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Electronic democracy and the civic networking movement in context / Cathy Bryan, Roza Tsagarousianou and Damian Tambini -- 2. Virtually going places: square-hopping in Amsterdam's Digital City / Letty Francissen and Kees Brants -- 3. Back to the future of democracy? New technologies, civic networks and direct democracy in Greece / Roza Tsagarousianou -- 4. Berlin in the Net: prospects for cyberdemocracy from above and from below / Oliver Schmidtke -- 5. Civic networking and universal rights to connectivity: Bologna / Damian Tambini -- 6. An Internet resource for neighbourhoods / Ed Schwartz -- 7. The First Amendment online: Santa Monica's Public Electronic Network / Sharon Docter and William H. Dutton -- 8. Manchester: democratic implications of an economic initiative? / Cathy Bryan -- 9. Electronic democracy and the public sphere: opportunities and challenges / Roza Tsagarousianou |
| Notes |
"Drafts of some of the contributions in this book were presented and discussed at the 9th Colloquium on Communication and Culture, Piran, Slovenia, April 1996"--Acknowledgements |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Community development, Urban.
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Community organization.
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Local area networks (Computer networks)
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Democracy.
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Political participation -- Computer network resources.
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| Author |
Bryan, Cathy.
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Tambini, Damian.
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Tsagarousianou, Roza, 1964-
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| LC no. |
97014243 |
| ISBN |
0415171342 (alk. paper) |
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0415171350 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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