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Week 8: Political effects: 'cyberdemocracy' or 'cybertyranny'Core Reading
o Downing, John. Radical Media: Rebellious communication and social
movements. London: Sage, 2001.
o Held, D. Models of Democracy, 2nd ed, Oxford: Polity Press, 1996
o Lyons, David. Surveillance Society: Monitoring Everyday Life. Open
university Press, 2001.
o Poster, Mark.'CyberDemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere', online
at http://www.humanities.uci.edu/mposter/writings/democ.html
Supplementary reading
o Barnett, S 'New media, old problems - New technology and the political
process', European Journal of Communication, Vol.12, No.2, (1997) pp.193-218
o De Sola Pool, I. Technologies of Freedom: On Free Speech in the Democratic
Age, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1983
o Grossman, Lawrence K. The Electronic Republic: Reshaping Democracy
in the Information Age, Penguin, 1996
o Gutstein, Donald E.Con : How the Internet Undermines Democracy, Stoddart,
1999
o Hall, M. 'One-to-one politics in cyberspace', Media Studies Journal,
Vol.11, No.1, (1997) p.97
o Loader, Brian (ed) The Governance of Cyberspace, London: Routledge,
1997 (Policing Cyberspace: Privacy and Surveillance', Part III)
o Lyon, David The Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society,
Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994
o Rash Jr, Wayne. Politics on the Nets: Wiring the Political Process,
W.H. Freeman, 1997
o Robins, Kevin and Webster, Times of the Technoculture: From The Information
Society To The Virtual Life.London; Routledge, 1999.
o Van de Donk,, W. Snellen, I. and Tops, P. (eds) Orwell in Athens:
A Perspective on Informatization and Democracy, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 1995
o Van Dijk, J 'Models of Democracy - Behind the Design and Use of New
Media in Politics', Javnost-The Public, , Vol.3, No.1, (1996) Pp. 43-56
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