Part II: Political Alignments
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Required Readings
January 22 - Introduction to Social and Political alignments
Downloadable study questions.
"Social structure and divisions," pp. 177-84 in Heywood, Politics (London: MacMillan, 1997).Ch. 10, "Cyberculture" in Norris, Digital divide : civic engagement, information poverty, and the Internet worldwide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
January 24 - Political Alignments on the Net: Cyber-libertarianism
Barbrook and Cameron, "The Californian Ideology," and Rossetto, "Rebuttal of the Californian Ideology," 1995.
Jon Katz, "The Digital Citizen," in Wired, December 1997.
January 29 - Political Alignments on the Net: Free Speech case study
Newey,"Freedom of Expression: Censorship in Private Hands," in Liberating Cyberspace (London: Pluto Press, 1999).
Elmer-Dewitt, "Censoring Cyberspace," in Ludlow, High noon on the electronic frontier : conceptual issues in cyberspace (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996). (259-262)
"ACLU letter to CMU" in Ludlow, High noon on the electronic frontier: conceptual issues in cyberspace (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996).
January 31 - Lab class: Social alignments on the Net: Gender & Race
Lekhi, "The Politics of African America On-Line" in Ferdinand, The internet, democracy, and democratization (London: Frank Cass, 2000).
Morahan-Martin, "Women and Girls Last: Females on the Internet".
Questions for in-class research:
1. Are there racial or ethnic disparities in Canadian access to the Internet?
2. Do women and men use the Internet differently?Web guides:
Freedom of Speech - Emmanuel Bayo Aregbesola
Breaking New Ground: A Guide to Online Feminism - Kari Nelson
Free Speech and the Internet: A Case Study of the Abortion Issue - Ryna Olonan
Biased Blocking Systems In Censoring Youths: A Web Guide - Rupi Randhawa
Additional Links
Social and political alignments — political science resources
Political alignments on the Net — general
Cyber-libertarianism
Free speech
Women online
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Literature Review of Gender Differences Online
Cyberjanes and Cyberjitters: Gender on the Internet
Women and Girls Last: Females and the Internet
Womens Internet Campaign: 40 activist uses of the Internet
Race and ethnicity online
