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Reformatting Politics: Information Technology and Global Civil Society book cover

1st Edition

Reformatting Politics Information Technology and Global Civil Society

Edited By Jodi Dean, Jon W. Anderson, Geert Lovink Copyright 2007
268 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge
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This book examines the ways in which new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are being used by civil society organizations (CSOs) to achieve their aims through activities and networks that cross national borders. These new ICTs (the internet, mobile phones, satellite radio and television) have allowed these civil society organizations to form extensive networks linking the local and... Read more
Introduction: The Postdemocratic Governmentality of Networked Societies  Part 1: Networks  1. Network is Format Work: The Issue-Network as a Site of Politics and the Challenge of Making Info-Technology Part of Civil Society  2. Organized Networks and Non-Representative Democracy  3. Power Logs, Weblogs, and Inequality  4. The Packet Gang: Openness and its Discontents  5. Anybody Can Be on TV  Part 2: Sites  6. Communicating Islamic Fundamentalism as Global Citizenship  7. Lost in Transition: the Internet and Reformasi in Indonesia  8. Exploring the Potential for More Strategic Civil Society Use of Mobile Phones  9. The Potential Role of IT in International Remittance Transfers  10. Network Society and Network Organizations  Part 3: Formats  11. Understanding WSIS: An Institutional Analysis of the UN World Summit on the Information Society  12. The End of the Experiment: How ICANN's Foray into Global Internet Democracy Failed  13. Debating Communication Imbalances: from the MacBride Report to WSIS  14. Interview with Milton Mueller: Trial and Error in Internet Governance

Biography

JON W. ANDERSON is an anthropologist, has taught in Germany and Norway, and currently is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the Catholic University of America. He is co-director of the Arab Information Project with Michael C. Hudson at Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.

JODI DEAN teaches political theory at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She serves on the editorial board of the journals Theory and Event and Constellations and has edited symposia on new technologies for the journals Constellations and Signs as well as the books Feminism and the New Democracy (Sage 1997) and Cultural Studies and Political Theory (Cornell UP 2000).

GEERT LOVINK is founder and director of the Institute of Network Cultures (www.networkcultures.org), professor at Interactive Media (Hogeschool van Amsterdam) and associate professor at the Media & Culture department, University of Amsterdam.

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