Radical Democracy and the Internet Interrogating Theory and Practice

by Dahlberg, Lincoln; Siapera, Eugenia

• ISBN13: 9780230007208
• ISBN10: 0230007201
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book provides a systematic and mutual interrogation of radical democratic theory and Internet practice.

Author Biography

LINCOLN DAHLBERG is Research Fellow, School of Journalism and Communication at University of Queensland, Australia. His research interests are in media politics, Internet and political culture, public sphere theory, and discourses of digital democracy. He has published extensively in these areas and is also co-editor of New Zealand Sociology.

EUGENIA SIAPERA teaches Media and Communication at University of Leicester, UK. She is co-editor (with Joss Hands) of At The Interface: Transformations in Culture and Politics.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. viii
Introduction: Tracing Radical Democracy and the Internet	p. 1
Globalization, Technopolitics, and Radical Democracy	p. 17
Radical Citizenship in the Republic of Technology: A Sketch	p. 37
Civic Identity and Net Activism: The Frame of Radical Democracy	p. 55
Online Direct Action: Hacktivism and Radical Democracy	p. 73
Between Agonistic and Deliberative Politics: Towards a Radical E-Democracy	p. 89
Participation and/or Deliberation? The Internet as a Tool for Achieving Radical Democratic Aims	p. 108
The Internet and Discursive Exclusion: From Deliberative to Agonistic Public Sphere Theory	p. 128
Multicultural Radical Democracy and Online Islam	p. 148
Democracy, Postcolonialism, and Everyday Life: Contesting the 'Royal "We"' Online	p. 168
Hegemony or Multitude? Two Versions of Radical Democracy for the Net	p. 191
Internet Piracy as Radical Democracy?	p. 207
Feminism, Communicative Capitalism, and the Inadequacies of Radical Democracy	p. 226
Index	p. 246
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