Texting Toward Utopia

Does the Internet spread democracy?

The major challenge in understanding the relationship between democracy and the Internet— aside from developing good measures of democratic improvement—has been to distinguish cause and effect. That is always hard, but it is especially difficult in this case because the grandiose promise of technological determinism—the idealistic belief in the Internet’s transformative power—has often blinded even the most sober analysts. Full Story »

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Patricia L'Herrou
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by Patricia L'Herrou - Apr. 13, 2009

an in-depth thoughtful perspective offering many varied reasons in discussion on whether the title is a reasonable supposition. it could be summed up with this quote, "the answer depends to a large extent, on whether the internet fosters an eagerness to act on newly acquired information." there are also points made which emphasize the importance of the geo-political context for the technology. i'd like to see studies which offer correlations between internet, blog, social media access/use and off line activism. which impacts political results.

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