Radical Democracy and the Internet

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Tracing Radical Democracy and the Internet

   • Lincoln Dahlberg, Eugenia Siapera

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3. Globalization, Technopolitics, and Radical Democracy

   • Richard Kahn, Douglas Kellner

   Pages 17-36

4. Radical Citizenship in the Republic of Technology: A Sketch

   • Darin Barney

   Pages 37-54

5. Civic Identity and Net Activism: The Frame of Radical Democracy

   • Peter Dahlgren

   Pages 55-72

6. Online Direct Action: Hacktivism and Radical Democracy

   • Tim Jordan

   Pages 73-88

7. Between Agonistic and Deliberative Politics: Towards a Radical E-Democracy

   • Joss Hands

   Pages 89-107

8. Participation and/or Deliberation? The Internet as a Tool for Achieving Radical Democratic Aims

   • John Downey

   Pages 108-127

9. The Internet and Discursive Exclusion: From Deliberative to Agonistic Public Sphere Theory

   • Lincoln Dahlberg

   Pages 128-147

10. Multicultural Radical Democracy and Online Islam

    • Eugenia Siapera

    Pages 148-167

11. Democracy, Postcolonialism, and Everyday Life: Contesting the ‘Royal “We”’ Online

    • M. I. Franklin

    Pages 168-190

12. Hegemony or Multitude? Two Versions of Radical Democracy for the Net

    • Nick Dyer-Witheford

    Pages 191-206

13. Internet Piracy as Radical Democracy?

    • Mark Poster

    Pages 207-225

14. Feminism, Communicative Capitalism, and the Inadequacies of Radical Democracy

    • Jodi Dean

    Pages 226-245

15. Back Matter

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In this systematic and mutual interrogation of radical democratic theory and Internet practice, contributors examine a range of democratic theories in relation to online communication and explore how such communication may advance democracy beyond what is conceptualized and practised within present liberal-capitalist political contexts.

• democracy
• globalization
• Internet
• Online
• participation
• The Republic

• University of Queensland, Australia

  Lincoln Dahlberg

• University of Leicester, UK

  Eugenia Siapera

DARIN BARNEY Research Chair in Technology and Citizenship at McGill University, Canada PETER DAHLGREN Professor of Media and Communication, Lund University, Sweden JODI DEAN Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York, USA JOHN DOWNEY Senior Lecturer, Communication and Media, Loughborough University, UK NICK DYER-WITHEFORD Associate Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, Canada MARIANNE FRANKLIN Senior Lecturer, Social and Political Theory, University for Humanistics, The Netherlands JOSS HANDS Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, and is a visiting lecturer at Roskilde University, Denmark TIM JORDAN Reader in Sociology, The Open University, UK RICHARD KAHN Teaching Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles, USA DOUGLAS KELLNER George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education, UCLA, USA MARK 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