Digital technology is changing our politics. The World Wide Web is                  already a powerful influence on the public's access to government documents, the                  tactics and content of political campaigns, the behavior of voters, the efforts of                  activists to circulate their messages, and the ways in which topics enter the public                  discourse. The essays collected here capture the richness of current discourse about                  democracy and cyberspace. Some contributors offer front-line perspectives on the                  impact of emerging technologies on politics, journalism, and civic experience. What                  happens, for example, when we increase access to information or expand the arena of                  free speech? Other contributors place our shifting understanding of citizenship in                  historical context, suggesting that notions of cyber-democracy and online community                  must grow out of older models of civic life. Still others consider the global flow                  of information and test our American conceptions of cyber-democracy against                  developments in other parts of the world. How, for example, do new media operate in                  Castro's Cuba, in post-apartheid South Africa, and in the context of multicultural                  debates on the Pacific Rim? For some contributors, the new technologies endanger our                  political culture; for others, they promise civic renewal.

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