Tag Archives: democracy
Bloomberg on technology
From the Wired interview with Michael Bloomberg: Wired: Kids sit on the steps of the Brooklyn library trying to get Wi-Fi. Why can’t we solve the problem that roughly half the people in this city don’t have broadband? Bloomberg: We will. That’s what capitalism is all about. As there’s demand, the private sector will come [...]
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direct democracy
According to the U.S. State Department, democracies can be organized under two general categories, direct and representative. In both forms the public participates in governance yet in a representative democracy elected or appointed officials mediate this participation, whereas in a direct democracy this participation occurs “without the intermediary of elected or appointed officials.” In citing [...]
a reading list: exploring theory and practice
Embracing the so called ‘cybercity’ as a specific unit of analysis, my second doctoral exam reading list will explore how processes of education and citizen participation are transmuted by the cybercity and how these transmuted processes in turn produce and reproduce the cybercity. In order for this exploration to begin clarification must first be achieved [...]
AAG Session: Democracy and the Public Sphere In a Web 2.0 World