Required texts:

Bimber, Bruce. Information and American Democracy: Technology in the Evolution of Political Power.Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

ISBN: 0521804922.

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Foote, Kirsten and Steven Schneider. Web Campaigning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.

ISBN: 0262562200.

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Howard, Philip. New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen.Cambridge, MA. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

ISBN: 0521612276.

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Recommended texts:

Benhabib, Seyla, ed. Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.

ISBN: 0691044791.

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Dewey, John. The Public and Its Problems.Athens, OH. Swallow Press, 1954 (org. 1927).

ISBN: 0804002541.

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Latour, Bruno and Peter Weibel, eds. Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.

ISBN: 0262122790.

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Class #1: Introduction and Overview – No assigned readings

 

Class #2: Models of Democracy

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Class #3: Publics, Social Capital, and Democratic Things

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Class #4: Information, Power, and Political Engagement

Class #5: Information Technology, Campaigns, and Political Culture

Class #6: Designing for Democracy

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