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From: "Lusoli,W (pg)" <[email protected]>
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sorry for cross-posting :-)
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Hi there,
my name is Wainer, I am doing a PhD on "Internet and politics" at the LSE,
hence I am spending nights reading a lot of stuff on this topic
(theoretical, right now)
May I suggest an amazing reading?
Laudon, Kenneth C. Communications Technology and Democratic Participation
1977, Praeger Publishers
Yes, 1977, ante litteram I would say.... forgive me you have already read
it.
(excerpt from page 2) "The groups involved in shaping this odd marriage
between populism and advanced technology form a pageant of Americana [sic!]:
entrepreneurial thinkers; hermaphroditic alliances of social scientists and
engineers; giant monopolies in broadcasting, telecommunications, and
computing seeking to preserve their share of an unknowable market; new and
smaller firms in cable television [...] and handfuls of politicians
skeptical of citizen technology and others supporting it to show the
electorate they care"
pretty realistic (harsh), isn't it? but the book is REALLY good.
let me know what you think
Wainer
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