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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Athina Karatzogianni (ed.): Cyber-Conflict and Global Politics (2008)

This volume examines theoretical and empirical issues relating to cyberconflict and its implications for global security and politics. Taking a multidimensional approach to current debates in internet politics, the book comprises essays by leading experts from across the world. The volume includes a comprehensive introduction to current debates in the field and their ramifications for global politics, and follows this with empirical case studies. These include cyberconflict, cyberwars, information warfare and hacktivism, in contexts such as Sri Lanka, Lebanon and Estonia, the European Social Forum, feminist cybercrusades and the use of the internet as a weapon by ethnoreligious and socio-political movements. The volume presents the theoretical debates and case studies of cyberconflict in a coherent, progressive and truly multidisciplinary way. The book will be of interest to students of cyberconflict, internet politics, security studies and IR in general.

Publisher Routledge, 2008
ISBN 0415459702, 9780415459709
272 pages

Keywords and phrases: LTTE, Hofstad group, virtual sit-in, hacktivism, electronic civil disobedience, cyber-terrorism, cyberwar, Tamilnet, cyberspace, media ecology, Tamil diaspora, Iraq War, blogs, European Social Forum, Hezbollah, Sri Lankan Tamil, Al-Qaeda, Internet, computer networks, Taiwan Strait.

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The Internet and Politics: Citizens, Voters and Activists (2006)

Changes in the media landscape present new challenges for scholars interested in the relationship between the mass media and civil society. Notably, the explosion of the Internet in advanced industrial democracies and its more limited introduction in other types of regimes has provided new pathways for communication.

This volume explores the nature of the Internet’s impact on civil society, addressing the following central questions:
· Is the Internet qualitatively different from the more traditional forms of the media?
· Has the Internet demonstrated real potential to improve civil society through a wider provision of information, an enhancement of communication between government and citizen or via better state transparency?
· Alternatively, does the Internet pose a threat to the coherence of civil society as people are encouraged to abandon shared media experiences and pursue narrow interests?
· In authoritarian states, does the Internet function as a beacon for free speech or another tool for propaganda?

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the Internet and civil society.

Editors Sarah Oates, Diana Marie Owen, Rachel Kay Gibson
Publisher Routledge, 2006
ISBN 041534784X, 9780415347846
228 pages

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Countryside Alliance, mass media, Yabloko, NGOs, Pew Research Center, social capital, Hizbollah, Ukraine Without Kuchma, United Russia, Cumbria, However, Ukrainska Pravda, cyber-terrorism, civil society, Republican Sinn Fein, Ukrainian, GreenNet, Ulster Loyalist, Russian parties, 2004 presidential election

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