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Cybering Democracy:

Door Diana Saco

Categorie	Politiek & Staatsinrichting
Boeknummer	#278100
Titel	Cybering Democracy:
Auteur	Saco, Diana
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	University Of Minnesota Press
Jaar van uitgave	2002
ISBN10	0816635412
ISBN13	9780816635412
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Public Space And The Internet: Public Space and the Internet volume 7.
Samenvatting	Cybering Democracy: Public Space and the Internet is the winner of the Modern Language Association (MLA) Prize for Independent Scholars for 2002 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 the possibility, at least, of face-to-face meetings among citizens. The Internet, then, raises provocative questions about democratic participation: Must the public sphere exist as a physical space? Does citizenship require a bodily presence? In Cybering Democracy, Diana Saco boldly reconcept... (Lees verder)ualizes the relationship between democratic participation and spatial realities both actual and virtual. She argues that cyberspace must be viewed as a produced social space, one that fruitfully confounds the ordering conventions of our physical spaces. Within this innovative framework, Saco investigates recent and ongoing debates over cryptography, hacking, privacy, national security, information control, and Internet culture, focusing on how different on-line practices have shaped this particular social space. In the process, she highlights fundamental issues about the significance of corporeality in the development of civic-mindedness, the exercise of citizenship, and the politics of collective action.
Pagina's	296
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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