Democratic Frontiers

Author : Michael Filimowicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000575842

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Democratic Frontiers: Algorithms and Society focuses on digital platforms’ effects in societies with respect to key areas such as subjectivity and self-reflection, data and measurement for the common good, public health and accessible datasets, activism in social media and the import/export of AI technologies relative to regime type. Digital technologies develop at a much faster pace relative to our systems of governance which are supposed to embody democratic principles that are comparatively timeless, whether rooted in ancient Greek or Enlightenment ideas of freedom, autonomy and citizenship. Algorithms, computing millions of calculations per second, do not pause to reflect on their operations. Developments in the accumulation of vast private datasets that are used to train automated machine learning algorithms pose new challenges for upholding these values. Social media platforms, while the key driver of today’s information disorder, also afford new opportunities for organized social activism. The US and China, presumably at opposite ends of an ideological spectrum, are the main exporters of AI technology to both free and totalitarian societies. These are some of the important topics covered by this volume that examines the democratic stakes for societies with the rapid expansion of these technologies. Scholars and students from many backgrounds as well as policy makers, journalists and the general reading public will find a multidisciplinary approach to issues of democratic values and governance encompassing research from Sociology, Digital Humanities, New Media, Psychology, Communication, International Relations and Economics. Chapter 3 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Author : L. Beckman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230244962

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The Frontiers of Democracy by L. Beckman Pdf

The Frontiers of Democracy offers a comprehensive examination of restrictions on the vote in democracies today. For the first time, the reasons for excluding people (prisoners, children, intellectually disabled, non-citizens) from the suffrage in contemporary societies is critically examined from the point of view of democratic theory.

Author : Michael Filimowicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000575897

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Democratic Frontiers by Michael Filimowicz Pdf

Democratic Frontiers: Algorithms and Society focuses on digital platforms’ effects in societies with respect to key areas such as subjectivity and self-reflection, data and measurement for the common good, public health and accessible datasets, activism in social media and the import/export of AI technologies relative to regime type. Digital technologies develop at a much faster pace relative to our systems of governance which are supposed to embody democratic principles that are comparatively timeless, whether rooted in ancient Greek or Enlightenment ideas of freedom, autonomy and citizenship. Algorithms, computing millions of calculations per second, do not pause to reflect on their operations. Developments in the accumulation of vast private datasets that are used to train automated machine learning algorithms pose new challenges for upholding these values. Social media platforms, while the key driver of today’s information disorder, also afford new opportunities for organized social activism. The US and China, presumably at opposite ends of an ideological spectrum, are the main exporters of AI technology to both free and totalitarian societies. These are some of the important topics covered by this volume that examines the democratic stakes for societies with the rapid expansion of these technologies. Scholars and students from many backgrounds as well as policy makers, journalists and the general reading public will find a multidisciplinary approach to issues of democratic values and governance encompassing research from Sociology, Digital Humanities, New Media, Psychology, Communication, International Relations and Economics.

Author : Robert Pinkney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351146661

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The Frontiers of Democracy by Robert Pinkney Pdf

Focusing in particular on the past decade, this enlightening volume explores the changing fortunes of democracy in the West, South East Asia and the Third World. It highlights the contrast between the expansion of democracy in quantitative terms, and the problems in maintaining or improving the quality of democracy. It examines such threats to democracy as public apathy, media trivialization, the power of big business and consumerism in the West, powerful states in South East Asia, and poverty and weak government in Africa, as well as the ubiquitous challenges of the global economy and the 'war on terrorism'. The author argues that a continued decline or stalling of democracy is not inevitable, but that it will require considerable human effort to claim or reclaim the political sphere.

Author : Henry S. Kariel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Democracy
ISBN : OCLC:468794458

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Frontiers of Democratic Theory by Henry S. Kariel Pdf

Author : Ewa Atanassow,Richard Boyd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107328327

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Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy by Ewa Atanassow,Richard Boyd Pdf

Alexis de Tocqueville is widely cited as an authority on civil society, religion and American political culture, yet his thoughts on democratization outside the West and the challenges of a globalizing age are less known and often misunderstood. This collection of essays by a distinguished group of international scholars explores Tocqueville's vision of democracy in Asia and the Middle East; the relationship between globalization and democracy; colonialism, Islam and Hinduism; and the ethics of international relations. Rather than simply documenting Tocqueville's own thoughts, the volume applies the Frenchman's insights to enduring dilemmas of democratization and cross-cultural exchanges in the twenty-first century. This is one of the few books to shift the focus of Tocqueville studies away from America and Western Europe, expanding the frontiers of democracy and highlighting the international dimensions of Tocqueville's political thought.

Author : Robin Hahnel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000392111

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Democratic Economic Planning by Robin Hahnel Pdf

Democratic Economic Planning presents a concrete proposal for how to organize, carry out, and integrate comprehensive annual economic planning, investment planning, and long-run development planning so as to maximize popular participation, distribute the burdens and benefits of economic activity fairly, achieve environmental sustainability, and use scarce productive resources efficiently. The participatory planning procedures proposed provide workers in self-managed councils and consumers in neighbourhood councils with autonomy over their own activities while ensuring that they use scarce productive resources in socially responsible ways without subjecting them to competitive market forces. Certain mathematical and economic skills are required to fully understand and evaluate the planning procedures discussed and evaluated in technical sections in a number of chapters. These sections are necessary to advance the theory of democratic planning, and should be of primary interest to readers who have those skills. However, the book is written so that the main argument can be followed without fully digesting the more technical sections. Democratic Economic Planning is written for dreamers who are disenamored with the economics of competition and greed want to know how a system of equitable cooperation can be organized; and also for sceptics who demand "hard proof" that an economy without markets and private enterprise is possible.

Author : Maxwell E. McCombs,Donald Lewis Shaw,David Hugh Weaver
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Mass media
ISBN : 080582555X

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Communication and Democracy by Maxwell E. McCombs,Donald Lewis Shaw,David Hugh Weaver Pdf

First in a trilogy on Communication and Democracy. Also fits with Gonzenbach, Semetko, and Protess/MccOmbs. For grads and beyond in journalism, poli comm, and mass comm.

Author : Richard Boyd,Ewa Atanassow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107009639

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Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy by Richard Boyd,Ewa Atanassow Pdf

This collection of essays uses Alexis de Tocqueville's writings to explore the dilemmas of democratization in the twenty-first century.

Author : George Sylvester Counts,George Wilfried Hartmann,William Heard Kilpatrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015020445857

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Frontiers of Democracy by George Sylvester Counts,George Wilfried Hartmann,William Heard Kilpatrick Pdf

Included section "The teacher's bookshelf."

Author : John S. Dryzek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199644858

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Foundations and Frontiers of Deliberative Governance by John S. Dryzek Pdf

Deliberative democracy puts communication and talk at the centre of democracy. This text takes a fresh look at the foundations of the field, and develops new applications in areas ranging from citizen participation to the democratization of authoritarian states to the global system.

Author : Maxwell E. McCombs,Donald L. Shaw,David H. Weaver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136685101

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Communication and Democracy by Maxwell E. McCombs,Donald L. Shaw,David H. Weaver Pdf

Exciting intellectual frontiers are open for exploration as agenda-setting theory moves beyond its 25th anniversary. This volume offers an intriguing set of maps to guide this exploration over the near future. It is intended for those who are already reasonably well read in the research literature that has accumulated since the publication of McCombs and Shaw's original 1972 Public Opinion Quarterly article. This piece of literature documented the influence of the news media agenda on the public agenda in a wide variety of geographic and social settings, elaborated the characteristics of audiences and media that enhance or diminish those agenda-setting effects, and cataloged those exogenous factors explaining who sets the media's agenda. In the current volume, a provocative set of maps for explicating new levels of agenda-setting theory have been sketched by a new generation of young scholars, launching an enterprise that has significant implications for theoretical research and for the day-to-day role of mass communication in democratic societies. At the first level of agenda setting are agendas of objects--the traditional domain of agenda setting research--represented by an accumulation of hundreds of studies over the past quarter century. At the second level of agenda setting are agendas of attributes--one of the new theoretical frontiers whose aspects are discussed in detail in the opening chapters. Other chapters offer maps of yet other theoretical frontiers, including political advertising agendas and their impact on behavior, the framing of various agendas in the mass media and the differential impact of print and TV, the theoretical role of individual differences in the agenda-setting influence of the news media on the public agenda, methodological advances for determining cause and effect roles in agenda-setting, and the application of agenda-setting theory to historical analysis. This volume is an invitation to others to become active members of the invisible college of agenda-setting scholarship. As such, the goals of this book are threefold: * to introduce a broad set of ideas about agenda-setting; * to enrich the exploration of these ideas by enhancing scholarly dialogue among the members of this invisible college; and * to enhance the discussion of agenda-setting research in seminars and research groups around the world. Agenda-setting has remained a vital and productive area of communication research over a quarter century because it has continued to introduce new research questions into the marketplace of ideas and to integrate this work with other theoretical concepts and perspectives about journalism and mass communication. Understanding the dynamics of agenda- setting is central to understanding the dynamics of contemporary democracy. This book's set of theoretical essays, grounded in the accumulated literature of agenda- setting theory and in the creative insights of young scholars, will help lead the way toward that understanding.

Author : Michael Gold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000160475

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New Frontiers of Democratic Participation at Work by Michael Gold Pdf

Title first published in 2003. Contributors from a wide range of European countries illustrate the validity of four propositions about employee participation: that different forms of employee participation mutually reinforce each other; that major shifts in employment relations require innovative approaches to participation; that appropriate conditions (including the provision of training and support) are required for the spread of participation; and that trade unions remain a crucial foundation for the promotion of participation.

Author : Ewa Atanassow,Richard Boyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 1107234565

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Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy by Ewa Atanassow,Richard Boyd Pdf

This collection of essays uses Alexis de Tocqueville's writings as a jumping-off point to explore the dilemmas of democratization in the twenty-first century"

Author : Gerald Sussman
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Communication in politics
ISBN : 1433105314

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Branding Democracy by Gerald Sussman Pdf

Branding Democracy: U.S. Regime Change in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe is a study of the uses of systemic propaganda in U.S. foreign policy. Moving beyond traditional understandings of propaganda, Branding Democracy analyzes the expanding and ubiquitous uses of domestic public persuasion under a neoliberal regime and an informational mode of development and its migration to the arena of foreign policy. A highly mobile and flexible corporate-dominated new informational economy is the foundation of intensified Western marketing and promotional culture across spatial and temporal divides, enabling transnational interests to integrate territories previously beyond their reach. U.S. «democracy promotion» and interventions in the Eastern European «color revolutions» in the early twenty-first century serve as studies of neoliberal state interests in action. Branding Democracy will be of interest to students of U.S. and European politics, political economy, foreign policy, political communication, American studies, and culture studies.