New Technologies and Not-So-New Democracies
Discussions of the impact of the new media on democratic politics often generalize too broadly about new technologies and almost always take for granted a uniformity about democracies. Democra- cies vary across nations and over time. For the USA, it is argued that Americans have had four diff...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Danish |
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Sammenslutningen af Medieforskere i Danmark (SMID)
2006-09-01
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| Series: | MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research |
| Online Access: | http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur/article/view/1284 |
| Summary: | Discussions of the impact of the new media on democratic politics
often generalize too broadly about new technologies and almost
always take for granted a uniformity about democracies. Democra-
cies vary across nations and over time. For the USA, it is argued
that Americans have had four different visions of what political spe-
ech and participation should be. American democracy has shifted
from a citizenship of deference, to one of party enthusiasm, to a
model of the informed citizen, to the contemporary model of irreve-
rent citizenship. Each model calls forth different versions of a public
sphere. What is the democracy that technology is having an impact
on? This question must be integrated in the discussion of the impact
of technology on democracy. |
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| ISSN: | 0900-9671 1901-9726 |