Published 1999 The system of modern communications media that has prevailed since the invention of the printing press – the Gutenberg galaxy – has been dominated by images of scarcity. This fact must be kept in mind when reconsidering the subject of public life,...
Read MorePaper presented at conference on "The Transformation of Civic Life" - Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro and Nashville, Tennessee - November 12-13, 1999. Michael Schudson's The Good Citizen: A History of Civic Life is a very good book. It is one of those rare books...
Read MoreThis paper was originally presented as the Southam Lecture at the annual conference of the Canadian Communication Association, Ottawa, ON, May 31, 1998) Canadian Journal of Communication , Vol. 24(1999)165-178 (Here ) Abstract : Modem communications media since the invention of the...
Read MoreIn Adam Michnik, Letters from Freedom: Post-Cold War Realities and Perspectives. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, pp.: 96-113 Click here to read scanned excerpt in PDF format...
Read More(This is a shortened version of his keynote address at the inaugural meeting of the Amsterdam School of Communications Research, University of Amsterdam, 18 September 1997. This article was first printed in CSD Bulletin Volume 5, Number 1 Autumn 1997) 1....
Read MoreAbstract : We are living in times in which spatial frameworks of communication are in a state of upheaval. The old hegemony of state-structured and territorially-bound public life mediated by radio, television, newspapers and books is being rapidly eroded. In...
Read MoreChapter appeared in Joseph H. Carens, Democracy and Possessive Individualism. The Intellectual Legacy of C.B.Macpherson, 1993, pp. 105-135 PDF...
Read MoreCSD Perspectives, No. 2 Autumn 1993 EARLY MODERN ORIGINS What is a nation? Do nations have a right to self-determination? If so, does that mean that the national identity of citizens is best guaranteed by a system of democratic government, in which power...
Read MoreThe Age of Liberalism The Spiritual Crisis of Parliament The Total State First Principles of Parliament? Pre-liberal Parliaments Par1iarnentary Government as Utopia Reforming Parliament Dictatorship and Parliament Parliament and Socialism Notes Nowadays the representative system is associated with the republican form of state. But originally it arose in monarchies,...
Read MoreExcerpt from Chapter 5 pp. 173-82 'Democracy, Risks and Reversals' in John Keanes book 'The Media and Democracy' Polity Press, 1991. Click here to read PDF...
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