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Debate, Democracy and the Public Sphere

by Lucie Campos, 8 January

In our second winter selection of reviews and essays, Books & Ideas takes a look back at a few important articles published over the last year on the current developments and trends affecting (...)

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Essays

The Internet and its Democratic Virtues

by Dominique Cardon & translated by John Zvesper, 8 November 2012

What are the political characteristics of the internet revolution? Plunging into “internet democracy,” Dominique Cardon explores the tensions running through this vast network of networks, (...)

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Campaigning for Ideas

Open Data As a Key to Citizen Empowerment

An Interview with Dominique Cardon, sociologist

by Ivan Jablonka & Pauline Peretz & translated by John Zvesper, 20 January 2012

A citizen, if informed, is active and attentive. In a transparent democracy, public authorities are truly accountable to their voters and citizens trust their leaders. In this interview, (...)

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Press and Democracy

by Emilie Frenkiel & Jeanne Moisand, 13 December 2011

The media industry has undergone dramatic changes in its technologies and business models. To help us understand the effects of these changes on democracy, Books and Ideas takes the discussion (...)

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Essays

‘Hacker’ Journalism - A New Utopia for the Press?

by Sylvain Parasie & translated by Victoria Lazar Graham, 14 October 2011

This article explains why and how self-taught computer programmers, web entrepreneurs, web project managers, programmers from free software communities and open data militants alike have all (...)

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Risk and the Masses

A historical reflection on the vaccination failure of 2009

by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, 3 December 2010

The failure of the vaccination campaign against the H1N1 virus has sometimes been blamed on the ‘wild rumours’ circulating on the Internet. According to Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, this interpretation (...)

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Portrait of the intellectual as a DJ

Wikipedia and the question of scientific expertise

by Philippe Lacour, 12 March 2010

Wikipedia is on its way to becoming something of an institution in today’s intellectual landscape. What role, one might ask, is scientific expertise going to play here? According to Philippe (...)

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Designing wisdom through the Web: The passion of ranking

by Gloria Origgi, 30 September 2008

How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers? Gloria Origgi claims that Internet is a giant network of (...)

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Is the Internet an instrument of democracy?

by Patrice Flichy, 26 February 2008

Is the Internet an opportunity for or a threat to democracy? The sure way to a Balkanisation of public opinion or the seedbed of new deliberative practices? Patrice Flichy presents here an (...)

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