Required
texts:
Bimber, Bruce. Information and American Democracy: Technology in the
Evolution of Political
Power.Cambridge, MA: Cambridge
University Press,
2003.
ISBN:
0521804922.
WorldCat
Foote, Kirsten and Steven
Schneider. Web
Campaigning.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
2006.
ISBN:
0262562200.
WorldCat
Howard, Philip. New Media
Campaigns and the Managed
Citizen.Cambridge, MA. Cambridge
University Press,
2005.
ISBN:
0521612276.
WorldCat
Recommended
texts:
Benhabib, Seyla, ed.
Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the
Political. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press,
1995.
ISBN:
0691044791.
WorldCat
Dewey, John. The Public
and Its
Problems.Athens, OH. Swallow Press,
1954 (org. 1927).
ISBN:
0804002541.
WorldCat
Latour, Bruno and Peter
Weibel, eds. Making Things Public: Atmospheres of
Democracy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
2005.
ISBN:
0262122790.
WorldCat
Class #1:
Introduction and Overview – No assigned
readings
Class #2: Models of
Democracy
- Jurgen Habermas, “Three
Normative Models of Democracy,” in Seyla Benhabib, ed. Democracy
and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the
Political(Princeton University Press:
Princeton NJ, 1996), pp
21-30.
- Joshua Cohen, “Procedure and
Substance in Deliberative Democracy,” in Seyla Benhabib, ed.
Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the
Political(Princeton University Press:
Princeton NJ, 1996), pp
95-119.
- Iris Marion Young,
“Communication and the Other: Beyond Deliberative Democracy,” in Seyla
Benhabib, ed. Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries
of the
Political(Princeton University Press:
Princeton NJ, 1996), pp
120-135.
- Michael Schudson, “Why
Conversation is Not the Soul of Democracy,” Critical Studies in
Mass Communication
14(1997), pp
297-309.
WorldCat
- Chantal Mouffe, “Deliberative
democracy or agonistic pluralism?” Social Research
66:3(1999), pp
745-758.
WorldCat
- Benjamin Barber, “Three
scenarios for the future of technology and strong Democracy,”
Political Science Quarterly
113(4), pp
573-589.
WorldCat
Class
#3: Publics, Social Capital, and Democratic
Things
- Walter Lippman, “The World
Outside and the Pictures in Our Heads,” in Public
Opinion(Free Press: New York, 1997
(org. 1922), pp 3-20.
WorldCat
- John Dewey, “The Eclipse of
the Public,” and “Search for the Great Community,” in The Public
and its Problems(Ohio University Press:
Athens OH, 1954 (org. 1927)), pp
110-184.
- Noortje Marres, “Issues Spark
a Public into Being: A Key But Often Forgotten Point of the
Lippmann-Dewey Debate,” in Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, eds.
Making Things Public: Atmospheres of
Democracy(MIT Press: Cambridge MA,
2005), pp 208-217.
- Robert Putnam, “Thinking
About Social Change in America,” in Bowling Alone: The Collapse and
Revival of American
Community(Simon & Schuster: New
York, 2000), pp 15-28.
WorldCat
- Paul Resnick, “Beyond Bowling
Together: SocioTechnical Capital,” in John Carroll, ed. HCI
in the New Millennium(Addison-Wesley: New York,
2002), pp 247-272.
Web
PDF
Plus, one of
the following:
- Robert Putnam and Lews
Feldstein, “Valley Interfaith: ‘The Most Dangerous Thing We Do Is Talk
to Our Neighbors’” in Better Together: Restoring the American
Community(Simon and Schuster: New
York, 2003), pp 11-33.
WorldCat
- “Branch Libraries: The
Heartbeat of the Community” in Better Together: Restoring the
American Community(Simon and Schuster: New
York, 2003), pp 34-54.
- “Craigslist.org: Is Virtual
Community Real?” in Better Together: Restoring the American
Community(Simon and Schuster: New
York, 2003), pp 225-240.
Class
#4: Information, Power, and Political
Engagement
- Bruce Bimber, Information
and American Democracy: Technology in the Evolution of Political
Power(Cambridge University Press:
Cambridge, 2003), pp 1-25, 89-109,
197-249.
Class
#5: Information Technology, Campaigns, and Political
Culture
- Philip Howard, New Media
Campaigns and the Managed
Citizen(Cambridge University Press:
Cambridge 2005), 43-142 and
170-204.
- Kirsten Foote and Steven
Schneider, Web Campaigning
(MIT Press: Cambridge MA,
2006), 18-24 and 45-155.
Class
#6: Designing for
Democracy
- Monique Girard and David
Stark, “Sociotechnologies of Assembly: Sense-Making and Demonstration
in Rebuilding Lower Manhattan,” in Governance and Information: The
Rewiring of Governing and Deliberation in the 21st
Century, David Lazer and Viktor
Mayer-Schoenberger, eds. (forthcoming,
2007).
- Robert Luskin, James Fishkin
and Shanto Iyengar, "Considered Opinions on U.S. Foreign Policy:
Face-to-Face versus Online Deliberation," (2006).
PDF
- James Fishkin, Baogang He,
Robert Luskin, and Alice Siu, “Deliberative Democracy in an Unlikely
Place: Deliberative Polling in China,”
(2006).
PDF
Plus, please
browse several of the below
projects:
- Richard Aczel, Marton
Fernezelyi, Robert Koch, and Zoltan Szegedy-Maszak, “Reflections on a
Table,” in Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, eds. Making Things
Public: Atmospheres of
Democracy (MIT Press: Cambridge MA,
2005), pp 204-205.
- Andrew Barry and Lucy
Kimbell, “Pindices,” in Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, eds. Making
Things Public: Atmospheres of
Democracy (MIT Press: Cambridge MA,
2005), pp 872-873.
- Futurefarmers,
“Communiculture,” in Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, eds. Making
Things Public: Atmospheres of
Democracy (MIT Press: Cambridge MA,
2005), pp 874-875
- Michel Jaffrenou and Thierry
Coduys, “Mission Impossible: Giving Flesh to the Phantom Public,” in
Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, eds. Making Things Public:
Atmospheres of Democracy (MIT Press: Cambridge MA,
2005), pp 218-221.
- Warren Sack, “Agonistics: A
Language Game,” in Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, eds. Making
Things Public: Atmospheres of
Democracy(MIT Press: Cambridge MA,
2005), pp 966-969.
- Tom Furstner, “Narrative
Device IV,” in Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, eds. Making Things
Public: Atmospheres of
Democracy(MIT Press: Cambridge MA,
2005), pp 898-899.
- Margit Rosen, “The
Chronofile-Society,” in Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, eds. Making
Things Public: Atmospheres of
Democracy(MIT Press: Cambridge MA,
2005), pp 936-941.