Wilhelm Democracy in the Digital Age

Challenges to Political Life in Cyberspace
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-1-135-96076-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilhelm, Anthony G.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
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
"Thic 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
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 Rennovations
The Difference Principle
Toward Ubiquitous Deployment of Advanced Services
Enhancing Deliberation in Online Political Forums
Political Multicasting: An Enduring Public Trusteeship
8. Conclusion: Media Campaigns and the New International
Appendix A1: Logistic Regression Analysis of Home Computer Ownership
Appendix A2: Logistic Regression Analysis of Home Modem Ownership
Appendix A3: Logistic Regression Analysis of Digitally Mediated Political Engagement
Appendix B: List of (Self-Identified) Political Usenet and AOL Forums
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anthony G. Wilhelm is Director of Information and Communication Technology Research at the Tomás Rivera Policy Insitute, a national think tank that examines issues of concern to the Hispanic community. He also served as the Teledemocracy Project Coordinator at Claremont Graduate University's School for Politics and Economics.