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Announcing The Myth of Digital Democracy |
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Written by Matt
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
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I'm very pleased to announce that my book will be published this winter by Princeton University press. The title: The Myth of Digital Democracy. Over the coming months, I'll be using this space to discuss the book's themes and central findings. Here is the blurb from the Princeton catalog: |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 07 July 2008 )
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The Hyperlinked Society and the Online Public Sphere |
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Written by Matt
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
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Another edited volume to which I've contributed has made it to press. The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age, edited by Joe Turow and Lokman Tsui , has come out from DigitalCultureBooks, a new imprint of the University of Michigan Press. My contribution is entitled "What is the Online Public Sphere Good For"? My very short answer: scandals and fact-checking, but NOT giving ordinary citizens greater voice in politics. I am particularly critical of what I term "trickle up" theories of online discourse. Scholars like Yochai Benkler , Daniel Drezner , and Henry Farrell are right about many things, but I argue that their vision of an accessible, bottom-up political discourse doesn't fit with the available evidence. You can see a preprint of the chapter here . If you like what you read, the book can be purchased from Amazon here . |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 04 July 2008 )
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Infomation Government and Open Source Politics |
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Written by Matt
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Sunday, 30 September 2007 |
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Governance and Information Technology: From Electronic Government to Information Government, the collected volume edited by David Lazer and Viktor Mayer-Schöenberger , is now out from MIT Press.
The volume includes my chapter "'Open Source Politics' Reconsidered: Emerging Patterns in Online Political Participation." My previous discussion of the chapter can be found here , and while you can find a preprint version of my chapter here . Better yet, click here to buy the book from Amazon. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 04 July 2008 )
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Amos, Andy, 'n' the APSA: Political Scientists, the Public and the Origin of Commercial Broadcasting |
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Written by Matt
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Monday, 16 April 2007 |
 APSA on the air In recent years, many have called for political science to engage more strongly with the public. In his 2004 APSA presidential address, Robert Putnam declared that "attending to the concerns of our fellow citizens is... an obligation as fundamental as our pursuit of scientific truth." Other scholars (and other APSA presidents) have echoed this theme. APSA committees on inequality, and on civic education and engagement, have recently striven to make their work more accessible and more "relevant." There is a strange omission in these debates. In calling for political science to have a "stronger public presence" (in Putnam's words), scholars have ignored the historical period when the public presence of political science was at its zenith. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 09 June 2007 )
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