▪ Abstract This essay's point of departure is the hallowed belief that democracy requires
active citizens and news media that supply them with information they need to participate …

This paper surveys transnational city networks for sustainability to determine the substance
of their work and the potentials for more efficient and successful implementation of …

Today, more mediated information is available to more people than at any other time in
human history. New and revitalized sense-making strategies multiply in response to the …

Early conceptions of digital democracy as a virtual public sphere or civic commons have
been replaced by a new technological optimism for democratic renewal based upon the …

Can we design institutions that increase and deepen citizen participation in the political
decision making process? At a time when there is growing disillusionment with the …

Howard Rheingold tours the" virtual community" of online networking. Howard Rheingold
has been called the First Citizen of the Internet. In this book he tours the" virtual community" …

Splintering Urbanism makes an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex
interactions between infrastructure networks and urban spaces. It delivers a new and …

To date, most network research contains one or more of five major problems. First, it tends to
be atheoretical, ignoring the various social theories that contain network implications …

This widely used and popular text provides a broad-ranging analysis of the relationship
between the media and politics. Revised and updated throughout, this second edition …

This is an entirely new edition of the author′ s 1984 study (originally published by South
End Press) of radical media and movements. The first and second sections are original to …