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New Media and Democracy

The Civic Networking Movement

DAMIAN TAMBINI

Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

This article describes and evaluates civic networks in Europe and the USA. These are seen as attempts to use new media technology, particularly the internet, to improve participation in local democratic processes. Various aspects of democratic communication are examined, including information access, preference measurement, deliberation and group mobilization. A wide variety of city-based experiments are described, which have all faced problems of low take-up and problems of inequality of access. It is argued that new media will have a significant and positive impact upon the processes of democratic communication within the appropriate regulatory and economic context, particularly regarding access to communications technologies.

Key Words: access • citizenship • civic networks • democracy • government • internet • media • new media

New Media & Society, Vol. 1, No. 3, 305-329 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/14614449922225609
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