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PART II - THE VIRTUAL POLITICAL SYSTEM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Pippa Norris
Pippa Norris
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
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Summary

Early in the next millennium your right and left cufflinks or earnings may communicate with each other by low-orbiting satellites and have more computer power than your present PC. Mass Media will be redefined by systems for transmitting and receiving personalized information and entertainment. Schools will change to become more like museums and playgrounds for children to assemble ideas and socialize with children from all over the world. The digital planet will look and feel like the head of a pin.

Nicholas Negroponte, Being Digital (1995)

Politics on the Internet is politics as usual conducted mostly by familiar parties, candidates, interest groups and news media.

Margolis and Resnick, Politics as Usual (2000) p. vii.
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Digital Divide
Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
 , pp. 93 - 94
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2001

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