"Democracy and the
Internet? Talk of their friendship has been exaggerated."
---Doug Schuler
---The Evergreen State College
"I will argue
that the new technology may well improve government but is unlikely to improve
politics."
---Paul Starr
---Princeton
University
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image for our conference?
Daumier's parliament
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a national conference
held at mit may 8-9, 1998 How are new media affecting
American democracy? A conversation among
scholars, media professionals and political
insiders about old and new media and the
democratic process.
Speakers included a Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize
winner, a MacArthur "genius" award
winner, the senior advisor to President Clinton
on information policy, the former President of
NBC News and others equally articulate.
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