Rebooting America. Ideas for Redesigning American Democracy for the Internet Age (2008)

The Personal Democracy Forum presents an anthology of forty-four essays brimming with the hopes of reenergizing, reorganizing, and reorienting our government for the Internet Age. How would completely reorganizing our system of representation work? Is it possible to redesign our government with open doors and see-through walls? How can we leverage the exponential power of many-to-many deliberation for the common good?

Edited by Allison Fine, Micah L. Sifry, Andrew Rasiej and Josh Levy.
Published by Personal Democracy Press, 2008
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License
ISBN 978-0-9817509-0-3

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Gary Krug: Communication, Technology and Cultural Change (2005)

Communication and the history of technology have invariably been examined in terms of artefacts and people.

Gary Krug argues that communication technology must be studied as an integral part of culture and lived-experience.

Rather than stand in awe of the apparent explosion of new technologies, this book links key moments and developments in communication technology with the social conditions of their time. It traces the evolution of technology, culture, and the self as mutually dependent and influential.

This innovative approach will be welcomed by undergraduates and postgraduates needing to develop their understanding of the cultural effects of communication technology, and the history of key communication systems and techniques.

Keywords and phrases
mass media, memex, pornography, However, antinomianism, Plato, camera obscura, USA PATRIOT Act, calotype, internet addictive disorder, Vannevar Bush, Paul Virilio, Nerone, gnostic, Eric Voegelin, daguerreotype, pentimento, Total Information Awareness, BBFC, personal computer

Publisher SAGE, 2005
ISBN 0761972013, 9780761972013
241 pages

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Frances Guerin: A Culture Of Light: Cinema And Technology In 1920s Germany (2005)

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