Radical Democracy and the Internet

DARIN BARNEY Research Chair in Technology and Citizenship at McGill University, CanadaPETER DAHLGREN Professor of Media and Communication, Lund University, SwedenJODI DEAN Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York, USAJOHN DOWNEY Senior Lecturer, Communication and Media, Loughborough University, UK NICK DYER-WITHEFORD Associate Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, CanadaMARIANNE FRANKLIN Senior Lecturer, Social and Political Theory, University for Humanistics, The NetherlandsJOSS HANDS Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, and is a visiting lecturer at Roskilde University, DenmarkTIM JORDAN Reader in Sociology, The Open University, UKRICHARD KAHN Teaching Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles, USADOUGLAS KELLNER George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education, UCLA, USAMARK POSTER Professor of History, University of California, USA. He is Chair of the Department of Film and Media Studies and a member of the History Department

• 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