A Private Sphere: Democracy in a Digital Age

by Zizi Papacharissi

Book Overview

Online technologies excite the public imagination with narratives of democratization. The Internet is a political medium, borne of democracy, but is it democratizing?

Late modern democracies are characterized by civic apathy, public skepticism, disillusionment with politics, and general disinterest in conventional political process. And yet, public interest in blogging, online news, net-based activism, collaborative news filtering, and online...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745645240
• ISBN13: 9780745645247
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.3"