Citizen Power and the Internet

By Hercules Bantas

Release : 2010-11-01

Genre : Political Science, Books, Politics & Current Events

Kind : ebook

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The rapid proliferation of technologies like the Internet has raised the question of whether they have had a positive or a negative effect upon democratic citizenship. This guide uses Steven Lukes' three-dimensional analysis of power to examine arguments of technological determinism that cast a negative light on the technology, and Castells' positive analysis of mass self-communication.

Citizen Power and the Internet

By Hercules Bantas

Release : 2010-11-01

Genre : Political Science, Books, Politics & Current Events

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
The rapid proliferation of technologies like the Internet has raised the question of whether they have had a positive or a negative effect upon democratic citizenship. This guide uses Steven Lukes' three-dimensional analysis of power to examine arguments of technological determinism that cast a negative light on the technology, and Castells' positive analysis of mass self-communication.

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