Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the publication of an edited volume on Radical
Democracy and the Internet(Palgrave, 2007).
We hope it will prove a useful intervention, and provide renewed impetus
for further reflection and discussion on the internet and democracy. For
more information, please see the end of the email.
Kind regards,
Lincoln and Eugenia
RADICAL DEMOCRACY AND THE INTERNET: INTERROGATING THEORY AND PRACTICE
Edited by Lincoln Dahlberg and Eugenia Siapera
Description
Radical Democracy and the Internet provides a systematic and mutual
interrogation of radical democratic theory and Internet practice.
Contributors critically examine a range of radical democratic theories in
relation to online communication, from deliberative to agonistic to
autonomist Marxist, and explore how such communication may be advancing
democracy beyond what is conceptualized and practised within present
liberal-capitalist political contexts. The result is an important
contribution to both democratic theory and new media studies, and
essential reading in politics, media studies, communications, and
sociology.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Tracing Radical Democracy and the Internet; L.Dahlberg &
E.Siapera
Globalization, Technopolitics and Radical Democracy; R.Kahn & D.Kellner
Radical Citizenship in the Republic of Technology: A Sketch; D.Barney
Civic Identity and Net Activism: the Frame of Radical Democracy; P.Dahlgren
Online Direct Action: Hactivism and Radical Democracy; T.Jordan
Between Radical and Deliberative Politics: Towards a Radical e-Democracy;
J.Hands
Participation and/or Deliberation? The Internet as a Tool for Achieving
Radical Democratic Aims; J.Downey
The Internet and Discursive Exclusion: From Deliberative to Agonistic
Public Sphere Theory; L.Dahlberg
Multicultural Radical Democracy and Online Islam; E.Siapera
Democracy, Postcolonialism, and Everyday Life: Contesting the 'Royal "We"
Online; M.Franklin
Hegemony or Multitude? Two Versions of Radical Democracy for the Net;
N.Dyer-Witheford
Internet Piracy as Radical Democracy?; M.Poster
Feminism, Communicative Capitalism, and the Inadequacies of Radical
Democracy; J.Dean
Index
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