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| 1 | Introduction to Democracy: Its Promise
and Problems Historical and Creative Visions |
Richard Sennett The Fall of Public
Man, pp. 3-27. Jürgen Habermas The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, Chapter 2, pp. 27-56. Lawrence A. Cremin, 1980. American Education: The National Experience 1783-1876, pp. 201-217. |
| 2 | Introduction to Democracy: Its Promise
and Problems Historical and Creative Visions |
Roberto Unger.1998. Democracy Realized.
pp. 5-10 & 206-235. Simone Chambers. 1996. Reasonable Democracy, pp. 193-227. |
| 3 | Ignorance in the Public How Ignorant is the Public? |
Neuman, Paradox of Mass Politics--1 to
2 chapters; pp. 1-50. Martin Gilens, 2000, "Political Ignorance and American Democracy," (Midwest Meeting, Yale U.) |
| 4 | Can Ignorance Change? | Leighley, Jan E. 1991 "Participation as
a Stimulus of Political Conceptualization." v53 Journal of Politics
198-211. Gastil & Dillard. 1999. "Increasing Political Sophistication Through Public Deliberation," Political Communication 16:3-23. Jason Barabas. 2000. "Uncertainty and Ambivalence in Deliberative Opinion Models: Citizens in the Americans Discuss Social Security Forum," Midwest Political Science Assoc. Annual Meeting. Katz, The Digital Citizen, Wired Magazine, p68-end. |
| 5 | Democracy amid Corporate Hegemony? Democracy and Economic Inequality |
Fred Wertheimer & Susan Weiss Manes, Campaign
Finance Reform: a Key to Restoring the Health of Our Democracy (1994),
excerpted in F.G.Slabach, 1998. The Constitution and Campaign Finance
Reform, pp. 93-111. Kevin Phillips, 1994. Arrogant Capital, ch. 4. 32 pp.Frank Sorauf, If It's Not Broken . . . or Is It?, in Annelise Anderson, 2000. Political Money: Deregulating American Politics, 3-35. http://www.campaignfinancesite.org/book/html/1.html |
| 6 | Media Manipulation? | McChesney. In McChesney, et al., Capitalism
and the Information Age. "The Political Economy of Global Communication."
Pp. 1-25. Chomsky. In McChesney, et al. "Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind." Pp. 179-189. Edward S. Herman. In McChesney, et al. "The Propaganda Model Revisited." Pp. 191-205. Habermas. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. Last 2 chapters. |
| 7 | Democracy and the role of Deliberation
Conceptions of Democracy |
Robert A. Dahl. Democracy and Its Critics,
pp. 83-105. Habermas. 1996. "Three Normative Models of Democracy," In Democracy and Difference (Seyla Benhabib, editor), pp. 21-31. Seyla Benhabib. "Toward a Deliberative Model of Democratic Legitimacy." In Democracy and Difference (Seyla Benhabib, editor), pp. 67-87. |
| 8 | Democracy and the role of Deliberation
Conceptions of Democracy |
Mark Warren 1995. "The Self in Discursive
Democracy," in The Cambridge Companion to Habermas, (Stephen
K. White editor), pp. 167-195. James Bohman, Public Deliberation, pp. 1-21. |
| 9 | Deliberation: Pro and Con | Sanders, Lynn 1997. "Against Deliberation,"
v25 Political Theory p. 347-76. Stephen Macedo. 1999. "Introduction," in Deliberative Politics (Stephen Macedo, editor), pp. 3-14. William H. Simon. 1999. "Three Limitations of Deliberative Democracy," ibid., pp. 49-58. Stanley Fish. 1999. "Mutual Respect as a Device of Exclusion," ibid., pp. 88-101. |
| 10 | Deliberation: Pro and Con | Russell Hardin. 1999. "Deliberation: Method,
Not Theory," ibid., pp. 103-118. Alan Wertheimer. 1999. "Internal Disagreements: Deliberation and Abortion," ibid. pp. 170-182. Gutman & Thompson. 1999. "Democratic Disagreement," in Deliberative Politics (Stephen Macedo, editor), pp. 243-279. |
| 11 | How Communication Affects Individuals Rational Choice and Communication |
Elster, J. (1986). Introduction. In J.
Elster (Eds.), Rational Choice (pp. 1-33). Washington Square,
New York: New York University Press. Elinor Ostrom. 2000. "Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norms," Journal of Economic Perspectives, v. 14 #3, pp.137-141. Lupia & McCubbins The Democratic Dilemma pg. 98. |
| 12 | Social Psychological Approaches to Communication | Patricia Wallace. 1999. The Psychology
of the Internet, "Group Dynamics in Cyberspace," pp. 55-87. Kitayama and Burnstein 1994. "Social Influence, Persuasion, and Group Decision Making" Persuasion : Psychological Insights and Perspectives edited by Sharon Shavitt, Timothy C. Brock. Pp. 175-191 Levine, Resnick, & Higgins 1993. "Social Foundations of Cognition," Annual Review of Psychology, v44, pp. 585-612 Petty et al. 1997 "Attitudes and Attitude Change," Annual Review of Psychology, v48, pp. 609-647 (refs start at 638) |
| 13 | George Herbert Mead, Symbolic Interactionism,
and Related? |
Mead, George H. 1934 Mind, Self, and Society
pp. xvi-xxxv; Morin, Alain 1993. "Self-talk and self-awareness: On the Nature of the Relation," The Journal of Mind and Behavior, v14, #3, PP 223-234. Wojciszke, Bogdan 1987. "Ideal-self, self-focus and value-behavior consistency," European Journal of Social Psychology, v17 187-198. |
| 14 | George Herbert Mead, Symbolic Interactionism, and Related? | Plant, Robert W., and Richard M. Ryan.
1985. "Intrinsic Motivation and the Effects of Self-Consciousness,
Self-Awareness, and Ego-involvement: An Investigation of Internally
Controlling Styles." Journal of Personality 53: 435-449. Tetlock, P. E. (1992). The Impact of Accountability on Judgment and Choice: Toward a Social Contingency Model. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 25, 331-376. Leonard M. Jessup et al. 1990. "Toward a Theory of Automated Group Work: The Deindividuating Effects of Anonymity." Small Group Research, 21(3), pp. 333-348. |
| 15 | How Communication Shapes Groups Group Processes |
Patricia Wallace. 1999. The Psychology
of the Internet, "Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation," pp. 88-109.
Hogg, Michael A. 1996. "Social Identity, Self-Categorization, and the Small Group," Understanding Group Behavior Witte, Erich H. (Ed), Vol. 2, pp. 227-255. |
| 16 | Social Capital | Putnam, Robert 1995. "Bowling Alone"
Journal of Democracy, v6 #1, pp. 65-78 David E. Campbell, Putnam, et al. 1999. "Tuning in, Tuning out revisited," APSA Annual Meeting. Nojin Kwak, Shah, et al. 2000. "Connecting, Trusting, & Participating," MPSA Annual Meeting. |
| 17 | Virtual Community and Virtual Political Community | Well article in Wired. Rheingold, Howard. The Virtual Community pp. 38-63. Baym, Nancy K. 1995. "The Emergence of Community in Computer-Mediated Communication," in CyberSociety pp. 138-163. |
| 18 | Virtual Community and Virtual Political Community | G. Scott Aikens. 1998. "A Personal History
of Minnesota Electronic Democracy, 1994," J. of Governmental Info.,
25(1), pp. 1-9. John Monberg. 1998. "Making the Public Count," Communication Theory, 8(4), 426-454. Juliet Musso et al. 2000. "Designing Web Technologies for Local Governance Reform," Political Communication, 17(1), pp. 1-19. |
| 19 | Towards a Political and Cultural Synthesis Critique of Information Age Concept |
Jerry L. Salvaggio, ed., 1989. The
Information Society (articles by Steinfeld & Savaggio, Bates,
and Schement) pp. 1-51. Frank Webster, 1995. Theories of the Information Society, pp. 6-30. |
| 20 | Towards New Politics | Ulrich Beck, "The Reinvention of Politics,"
in Beck, Giddens, and Lash Reflexive Modernization (on reserve), pp.
1-52. |
| 21 | The Culture of Real Virtuality | Manuel Castells, The Information Age:
Economy, Society, & Culture, Vol. 1, The Rise of the Network Society,
pp. 327-375. |
| 22 | The Cultural Construction of Space and
Time in the Information Age Identity, Meaning and New Politics |
Manuel Castells, The Information Age:
Economy, Society, & Culture, Vol. 1, The Rise of the Network Society,
pp. 410-423, 445-478,. Manuel Castells, The Power of Identity, pp. 1-27 & 65-67. |
| 23 | Communications and the Design of Democratic
Institutions Deliberation and the Design of Political Institutions |
J.M. Bessette, 1994. The Mild Voice
of Reason, 6-66. Bennett, "Democracy as Meaningful Conversation," 14 Const. Commentary 481-533 (1997). |
| 24 | Communications and the Design of Democratic
Institutions Deliberation and the Design of Political Institutions |
C. Nino, 1996. The Constitution of
Deliberative Democracy, 144-186. Forbath, William, "Habermas's Constitution: A History, Guide, and Critique," 23 Law & Soc. Inquiry 969-1016 |
| 25 | Inequality, Participation, and Representation: Basic Issues | Young, Iris M. 2000. Inclusion and
Democracy. 52-153 |
| 26 | Digital Divide | Reddick, et al., 2000. The Dual Digital
Divide: The Information Highway in Canada, 46-63. U.S. Dep't of Commerce, 2000. Falling Through the Net: Towards Digital Inclusion, xv-xviii, 33-42, 77-80 Hoffman, D. and Novak, T, 1999. "The Growing Digital Divide: Implications for an Open Research Agenda," http://ecommerce.vanderbilt.edu/papers.html, chapter to appear in Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools and Research, B. Kahin and E. Brynjolffson, eds. MIT Press, forthcoming. Lazarus, W. and Mora, F., 2000. Online Content for Low-income and Underserved Americans: The Digital Divide's New Frontier http://www.childrenspartnership.org/pub/ low_income/index.html, 8-37. |
| 27 | The Internet and the Geography of Democracy | Young, Iris M. 2000. Inclusion and
Democracy. 196-275 |
| 28 | From Theory to Practice: The Internet and Non-Majoritarian Institutions | Johnson, Stephen M., "The Internet Changes
Everything: Revolutionizing Public Participation and Access to Government
Information Through the Internet," 50 Admin. L. Rev. 277-337 |
| 29 | Sharing Life in Cyberspace | Schwartz, P.M., "Privacy and Democracy
in Cyberspace," 52 Vand. L. Rev. 1609-1701 |
| 30 | Wrap-Up | Barber, Benjamin R. "The New Telecommunications
Technology: Endless Frontier or the End of Democracy?" Constellations,
v4 #2, pp. 208-228 |
