Resources
(In alphabetical order name-surname)
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Alexander Bird, Thomas Kuhn, Preface and Ch1, Kuhn's Context, p. 1-29, here
Ali Paya - Powerpoint presentation of lecture on Popper, here
Ali Paya - Powerpoint presentation of lecture on Kuhn, here
Ali Paya - Powerpoint presentation of lecture on Lyotard, 27 02 2007, here
*Barry M. Leiner et al., A Brief History of the Internet, (Internet Society 2001) available online here or PDF back up here
Berlusconi - Marco Travaglio and Peter Gomez - 2003 - Berlusconi. The pamphlet was distributed to all members of the European parliament by Gianni Vattimo the 2nd July 2003, the same day Berlusconi addressed the Parliament with Italy's agenda for its six months of presidency. Download it here - or from original source here.
Berlusconi - The Rise and Fall of Berlusconi By Christopher Dickey - here
Berlusconi - Open Letter to Silvio Berlusconi, Cover story by the Economist. Download it here or from original source here
Berlusconi - Italy's Monstrosity, by Tim Parks - download it here
Bryan Magee "Philosophy and the Real World : An Introduction to Karl Popper": Ch. 6 The Open Society: here
Bruno Latour, From Realpolitik to Dingpolitik – An Introduction to Making Things Public, in Bruno Latour & Peter Weibel Dingpolitik catalogue of the show MAKING THINGS PUBLIC -Atmospheres of Democracy at ZKM, 2005, MIT Press. Download:
PDF version -by courtesy of ZKM & MIT, Backup PDF hereDouglas Kellner, Entry on Habermas, an overview of Jurgen Habermas' work. download it here. Douglas Kellner's webpage here.
Douglas Kellner, Habermas, the Public Sphere & Democracy, download it here. Douglas Kellner's webpage here.
Douglas Kellner and Richard Kahn, Oppositional Politics and the Internet: A Critical/Reconstructive Approach. Original source here, our back up here. Douglas Kellner's webpage here.
Douglas Kellner, Techno-Politics, New Technologies and the New Public Spheres, Original source here, our back up here. Douglas Kellner's webpage here.
Giovanni Navarria, e-Government: “Who controls the controllers?” Read it: PDF
Giovanni Navarria, The future of dissent: hacking Chinese censorship. Read it: PDF
Giovanni Navarria, Power Point Presentation of Lecture on the Public Sphere (2007) , here
Giovanni Navarria, Power Point Presentation of Lecture on the Internet Galaxy (2007) , here
Giovanni Navarria, Power Point Presentation of Lecture Government, Media, and Power in the Age of the Internet (27-2-2007) , here
Giovanni Navarria, Power Point Presentation of Lecture New Politics? (05-03-2007) , here
Giovanni Navarria, Power Point Presentation of Lecture From the Archaeology of Knowledge to Governmentality: Michel Foucault’s theory of power (13-03-2007) , here
Giovanni Navarria, Power Point Presentation of the Lecture: The new social morphology of our societies: Manuel Castells’ theory of The Network Society (27-03-2007) , here
Greg Walton, 2001, China's Golden Shield: Corporations and the Development of Surveillance Technology in the People's Republic of China, Available here or Backup here
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition , (excerpts): Contents, prologue and pp. 175-181: here; on the Human Condition, Margaret Canovan (three files 3 MB each): pp.51-9; 60-71; 72-79_and_notes
Harry G. Frankfurt, On Bullshit, (excerpts): here
HTML short for HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages... read the Wikipedia article here
HTTP or Hypertext Transfer Protocol is a method used to transfer or convey information on the World Wide Web. Its original purpose was to provide a way to publish and retrieve HTML pages. Read the Wikipedia article here
James Curran, What Democracy Requires of the Media here
Jean-François Lyotard, Wittgenstein “After", here
Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. (excerpts): here
Jeremy Bentham, The panopticon letters. original here, our pdf back up here
John Keane, The Modern Democratic Revolution: Reflections on Jean-François Lyotard's La Condition postmoderne, here
John Keane, Power Point Presentation of Lecture on Wittgenstein, here
John Keane, Global Civil Society?, Chapter 2, pp. 23-47, in Helmut Anheier, Marlies Glasius, and Mary Kaldor (eds.), Global Civil Society 2001, Oxford University Press. here
John Keane, A short history of Democracy (HTML - PDF - Word)
John Keane, Democracy: the Rule of Nobody? (HTML - PDF - Word)
John Keane, Journalism and Democracy Across Borders (HTML - PDF - Word)
John Keane, The Media and Democracy (Blackwell 1999), introduction: here
John Keane, Risks and Reversals, from chapter 5 Democracy, Risks, and Reversals, in John Keane, The Media and Democracy. Polity Press, 1991. (pp. 173-82): here
John Keane, Notes on Richard Rorty, Human Sciences' Lecture 21-03-2006 A Post-Philosophical Culture? Richard Rorty’s Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. Download notes here
John Keane, Public Life in the Era of Communicative Abundance (HTML - PDF - Word)
John Keane, Public Life and Late Capitalism , chapter 2 (NB: NOT CHAPTER 1, as mistakenly advised on the syllabus.) here
John Keane, Some Reflections On The Good Citizen here
John Keane, Whatever Happened to Democracy?, read more about the book here; read the lecture here
John Perry Barlow, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace. here
Jürgen Habermas, The Public Sphere (excerpts): here;
Jürgen Habermas Some definitions from the Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: here
Jürgen Habermas, Public space and political public sphere – the biographical roots of two motifs in my thought (Commemorative Lecture, Kyoto Nov. 11, 2004 ) here
Karl Popper ‘Professor Sir Karl Popper : Obituary' ( Rom Harre' (1994): The Independent, 19 September 1994, p.32.) here
Karl Popper, The Myth of the Framework , pp. 154-185: here
Karl Popper, ‘Normal Science and its Dangers', in Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave (eds.), Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge , pp. 51-58 (a reply to Kuhn). Here
Karl Popper, Extracts from "The Poverty of Historicism": here
Karl Popper, Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach . Ch. 7, Evolution and the tree of Knowledge: here
Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies , introduction: here
Karl Popper, Unended Quest : An Intellectual Biography , pp. 138-51: here
Karl Popper: Interview with Karl Popper, here.
Kevin D. Haggerty and Richard V. Ericson, The surveillant assemblage, British Journal of Sociology Vol. No. 51 Issue No. 4 (December 2000) pp. 605–622, available online here
Lincoln Dahlberg, Extending the Public Sphere Through Cyberspace: The Case of Minnesota E-Democracy, original source here
Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty , here
Manuel Castells, ‘Informationalism, Networks, and the Network Society: A Theoretical Blueprint' in Manuel Castells (Ed.) The Network Society: a cross-cultural perspective , Northampton , MA : Edward Elgar, 2004. PDF online version Here, or Backup: Here
Manuel Castells, 'The Culture of Real Virtuality', in The Rise of The Network Society: 326-41; 342-61; 372-75
Mark Harrison – 2007 - China Week on the BBC: The media making knowledge and writing history (here)
Mark A. Notturno, Science and the Open Society, The Future of Karl Popper's Philosophy , Ch. 2 Tolerance Freedom and Truth: 25-47. here
Martyn Oliver "Towards a Liberal Utopia." An Interview with Richard Rorty; Times Literary Supplement n4760. Jun 24, 1994 . 14: here
Matthew Hindman, "Googlearchy: Why the Structure of the Web Matters for Politics", original link here; back-up here;
Max Weber, Politics as a Vocation (excerpts): here
Max Weber, Science as A Vocation (excerpts): here
Max Weber. (1968). Basic Sociological Terms. Economy and Society. G. Roth. Berkeley, University of California Press: 3-62. original here, our back up here
Michael Margolis and David Resnick, Politics As Usual – The Cyberspace “Revolution”. Excerpts here
Michael Schudson, Good Citizens and Bad History, Today's Political Ideals in Historical Perspective, paper presented at presented at the Seigenthaler Conference on Michael Schudson's The Good Citizen. Michael Schudson's paper here, John Keane's response here. To read the other papers presented at the Conference visit the conference website here
Michel Foucault, “Governmentality.” The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality. Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon and Peter Miller (eds.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991, pp. 87–104. original here, our back up here. NB: many other documents on Foucault here
Michel Foucault- by Thomas Lemke, "The Birth of Bio-Politics" – Michel Foucault's Lecture at the Collège de France on Neo-Liberal Governmentality. original here, back up here
Michel Foucault - By Thomas Lemke, Foucault, Governmentality, and Critique, Rethinking Marxism, 14. Jg., No. 3, 2002, S. 49-64. original here, our back up here
Thomas LemkeMichel Foucault replies to questions from the audience at Berkeley's History Department in 1983 (Transcripts) here
Michel Foucault, From Biopower to Biopolitic by Maurizio Lazzarato here
Michel Foucault, Technologies of the Self, here
Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison , NY: Vintage Books. Especially the section on Panopticism. An electronic version of this text is available online at the following address: http://cartome.org/foucault.htm our back up in pdf here
Michel Foucault, “The Carceral” in Discipline & Punish . New York: Vintage Books, 1995 original here, our back up here. NB: many other documents on Foucault here
Michel Foucault, ‘Being and Power: Heidegger and Foucault' (Article by H. Dreyfus) original here, our back up here
Michel, Fouacult. “Society Must be Defended” in Michel Foucault: Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth . Paul Rabinow (ed.). New York: New Press, 1997: 59-66. original here, our back up here. NB: many other documents on Foucault here
Michel Foucault - The Archæology of Knowledge – first 3 chapters - original web here or our back up in pdf file here
Michel Foucault. (2000). Useless to Revolt. Power. J. D. Faubion. New York, New Press: 449-453 original here, our back up here.
Michel Foucault - Dictionary for the Study of the Works of Michel Foucault - original here, our back up here.
Michel Foucault web resources: Generation Online here; Thomas Lemke website here; Many scanned materials here
Michel Foucault - Video: Justice Vs. Power - Chomsky Vs. Foucault, Part 1 here; Part 2 here. (In 1971, American linguist/social activist Noam Chomsky squared off against French philosopher Michel Foucault on Dutch television ... the program was entitled 'Human Nature: Justice Vs. Power' and offered sharp contrasts between the two intellectuals)
Networked Politics: Rethinking political organisation in an age of movements and networks A reader produced by TNI, Transform! Italia, IGOP and Euromovements January 2007. (here)
Nicholas Negroponte, Being Digital, a partial online version of the book is available Here
Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions: Thomas Kuhn's Philosophy of Science , p. 1-29, here
Peter Singer, Discovering Karl Popper , here
Phil Agre, ‘Real-Time Politics: The Internet and the Political Process', in The Information Society , 18: 3111-331, 2002. Backup here
Pippa Norris, ‘The Democratic Divide' in Digital Divide. Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide ( Cambridge University Press 2001) pp. 193-240. An electronic version (draft) is available online at Pippa Norris's official website: http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~pnorris/Books/Books.htm
Rachel Silcock, ‘What is e–Government?', in Parliament Affairs , 54, no. 1 (January 2001): 88-101. Download it via Infolink
Rupert Murdoch, see Wikipedia: here
Shanthi Kalathil, Dot Com for Dictators E-mail, here
Shanthi Kalathil and Taylor C. Boas, The Internet and State Control in Authoritarian Regimes: China , Cuba , and the Counterrevolution. here
Simon Joss, Power Point Presentation of the Lecture: Risk and Public Accountability (26-03-2007): here
Survey: The Digital Future - Report Surveying the Digital Future -Year Four. From the USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future: original here, our back up here
Stanley Fish, ‘There is No Such Thing as Free Speech : An Interview with Stanley Fish', from the Australian Humanities Review here or backup here or here
Stephen Coleman and John Gotze, Bowling Together: Online Public Engagement in Policy Deliberation, Hansard Society 2001, (the printed version is no longer available, but the report is available online at www.bowlingtogether.net. or backup here
Stephen Coleman, The Network-Empowered Citizen - How people share civic knowledge online. Paper presented at Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) Seminar: “From Grass Roots to Networks: the role of social capital in political Participation”. Available at IPPR website: here or our back up here
Tamara Witschge. Online Deliberation: Possibilities of the Internet for Deliberative Democracy, download the paper from the original source here, or from our back up here
Terhi Rantanen "The message is the medium: An interview with Manuel Castells," Global Media and Communication , Volume 1(2): 135-147, 2005. Read the interview or backup: here
Thomas Kuhn (1962), The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, synopsis (here) and outline (here).
Thomas Kuhn (1962), The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, ch. IX. The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions, here.
Thomas Nickles (Ed.). Thomas Kuhn. , introduction: here
URL or Uniform Resource Locator in popular usage, it is a widespread synonym for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) read more on this wikipedia article here
Vint Cerf A Brief History of the Internet and Related Networks, here
Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us - video posted on Youtube.com by Digital Ethnography, a working group of Kansas State University students and faculty dedicated to exploring and extending the possibilities of digital ethnography. Watch the video here on youtube or see here a more general description of Web 2.0. here on the Digital Ethnography's blog
