Access and Governance - Week of November 25

Schedule

• Monday. Larry Seaquist, Chairman, The Strategy Group
• Wednesday. Project reviews due.

Required Reading

1. Lawrence K. Grossman, Nebuchadnezzar's Dream: Reshaping Political Values in the Information Age (on reserve Reiss library)
2. Blake Harris, The Cyberspace Constituency, Government Technology.
3. David Ronfeldt, Cyberocracy is Coming.
4. Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell, On-ramp Prospects for the Information Superhighway Dream, Communications of the ACM, July 1996. (on reserve Reiss library)
5. Libraries, Networks and Democracy: Government and the People in an Electronic Age
6. U.S. NII Virtual Library - see especially Thomas A. Kalil, Leveraging Cyberspace and Connecting The Nation: Classrooms, Libraries, and Health Care Organizations in the Information Age under NII Publications

Recommended Reading

1. Lawrence K. Grossman, The Electronic Republic: Reshaping Democracy in the Information Age, Viking, 1995.
2. Dave Carter, Digital Democracy or Information Aristocracy? Economic Regeneration and Information Economy
3. Information Society: Agenda for Action in the U.K.
4. CommerceNet / Nielsen Internet Demographics Survey
5. James E. Pitkow and Colleen M. Kehoe, Emerging Trends in the WWW User Population, Comm. ACM, Vol. 39, No. 7, July 1996, pp. 106-108.
6. CDT Congress and The Net

Questions

1. Write down 2 questions to ask the guest speaker
2. What are the key claims of the readings?
3. In what ways might the Internet reshape democracy in the U.S.?
4. What are the issues of access?
5. Will the Internet lead to greater democratic rule in the world?
6. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the Internet to societies?