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.