Democracy and new media / edited by Henry Jenkins and David Thorburn ; associate editor, Brad Seawell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Digital revolution, the informed citizen, and the culture of democracy / Henry Jenkins, David Thorburn -- Technologies of freedom? / Lloyd Morrisett -- Which technology and which democracy? / Benjamin R. Barber -- Click here for democracy: a history and critique of an information-based model of citizenship / Michael Schudson -- Growing a democratic culture: john commons on the wiring of civil society / Philip E. Agre -- Reports of the close relationship between democracy and the internet may have been exaggerated / Doug Schuler -- Are virtual and democratic communities feasible? / Amitai Etzioni -- Who needs politics? Who needs people? The ironies of democracy in cyberspace / Roger Hurwitz -- Democracy and cyberspace: first principles / Ira Magaziner with response by Benjamin Barber -- Digital democracy and the new age of reason / David Winston -- Voting, campaigns, and elections in the future: looking back from 2008 / Nolan A. Bowie -- Democracy and new media in developing nations: opportunities and challenges / Adam Clayton Powell III -- Will the internet spoil Fidel Castro's Cuba? / Christina Venegas -- Ethnic diversity, "race," and the cultural political economy of cyberspace / Andrew Jakubowicz -- Documenting democratization: new media practices in post-apartheid South Africa / Ashley Dawson -- The frequencies of public writing: tomb, tome, and time as technologies of the public / John Hartley -- Journalism in a digital age / Christopher Harper -- Hypertext and journalism: audiences respond to competing news narratives / Robert Huesca, Brenda Dervin -- Beyond the global and the local: media systems and journalism in the global network paradigm / Ingrid Volkmer -- Resource journalism: a model for new media / Ellen Hume -- What is information? The flow of bits and the control of chaos / David Sholle -- That withered paradigm: the web, the expert and the information hegemony / Peter Walsh.