Radical Democracy and the Internet

LINCOLN DAHLBERG is Research Fellow, School of Journalism and Communication at University of Queensland, Australia. His research interests are in media politics, Internet and political culture, public sphere theory, and discourses of digital democracy. He has published extensively in these areas and is also co-editor of New Zealand Sociology. EUGENIA SIAPERA teaches Media and Communication at University of Leicester, UK. She is co-editor (with Joss Hands) of At The Interface: Transformations in Culture and Politics.

• Notes on Contributors Introduction: Tracing Radical Democracy and the Internet; L.Dahlberg & E.Siapera Globalization, Technopolitics and Radical Democracy; R.Kahn & D.Kellner Radical Citizenship in the Republic of Technology: A Sketch; D.Barney Civic Identity and Net Activism: the Frame of Radical Democracy; P.Dahlgren Online Direct Action: Hactivism and Radical Democracy; T.Jordan Between Radical and Deliberative Politics: Towards a Radical e-Democracy; J.Hands Participation and/or Deliberation? The Internet as a Tool for Achieving Radical Democratic Aims; J.Downey The Internet and Discursive Exclusion: From Deliberative to Agonistic Public Sphere Theory; L.Dahlberg Multicultural Radical Democracy and Online Islam; E.Siapera Democracy, Postcolonialism, and Everyday Life: Contesting the 'Royal "We" Online; M.Franklin Hegemony or Multitude? Two Versions of Radical Democracy for the Net; N.Dyer-Witheford Internet Piracy as Radical Democracy?; M.Poster Feminism, Communicative Capitalism, and the Inadequacies of Radical Democracy; J.Dean Index