Digital Media and Democracy
Tactics in Hard Times
Edited by Megan Boler
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Structure of the book:
434 Pages/ 19 chapters/ 3 parts
Collection of essays and interviews
Different authors: Scholars, Journalist and business people.
Main question: How does the contemporary media landscape influence the democratic process?
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Summary
In this collection of essays and interviews with different media actors, contemporary corporate U.S. media is challenged by upcoming alternatives like new Media, the influence of the internet, citizen journalism and social movements. In the first part the shape of the public is sketched and a history of media in the U.S. is described. The second part deals with the changing face of new media, where the first part is narrowed down to analyze the changes in news production we see today. The third part offers us direct knowledge of how web 2.0 can be used to shape social movements and how one can use web practices and tactical media.
This link
and here is another one, on the dutch Wikipedia
is part of a larger research assignment for the masters of media course in amsterdam, where new (and old) media are critically researched, viewed and responded on. Besides a theoretical approach, a very important part of this course is to also to ‘field research’; active generation and involvement…
Politics is always changing as society incorporates new technology for disseminating information and connecting people’ (6)
Extreme democracy is a political philosophy of the information era that puts people in charge of the entire political process. It suggests a deliberative process that places total confidence in the people, opening the policy-making to many centres of power through deeply networked…
In ‘organized networks”, Australian media theorist Ned Rossiter states the urgency for new institutional forms, while ‘the uncertainties of labour and life within network societies and informational economies have all too clearly exposed the limits of prevailing institutional systems and structures’ [Rossiter].
During the past 15-20 years, (western) institutions have experienced profound difficulties in adapting to a non-representational…
Roman Tol
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09 July 2007, 4:10 am
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tags: 3G, democracy, discussion, event, facebook, google, locative media, participatory culture, social networks, surveillance
For three executive sunny days last week, the humanity studies faculty of the University of Amsterdam hosted the New Network Theory conference. This four party collaborative initiative – consisting of Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, Institute of Network cultures, University of Amsterdam, and the Hogeschool van Amsterdam - was to exploit the potential of formulating…
So I’m at my mum’s trying to make some progress on writing my thesis, and she complained about one of the sites she likes to visit – UrukNet – being shunned from Google News.
I asked her for some links regarding this, and apparently there are a number of curious issues surrounding Google and controversal (leftish) websites.
A happy Psiphon user from Teheran, Iran wrote 
the following:
Wow cool!
Dank je wel, ik ga het direct proberen. Dit kan me echt helpen. Oh ja mijn stiefbroer heeft een server in NL, die staat altijd aan. Zou het helpen als die daarop staat? Wat moet ik dan doen? Echt Bedankt!
PS laat het
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