Cybering Democracy: Public Space and the Internet Volume 7

by Diana Saco

Book Overview

Reconceptualizes the relationship between participatory democracy, technology, and space

The Internet has been billed by some proponents as an "electronic agora" ushering in a "new Athenian age of democracy." That assertion assumes that cyberspace's virtual environment is compatible with democratic practice. But the anonymous sociality that is intrinsic to the Internet seems at odds with theories of democracy that presuppose...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816635412
• ISBN13: 9780816635412
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"