*** Democracies Online Newswire - http://www.e-democracy.org/do *** This edition of First Monday includes an article by Lincoln Dahlberg on the public sphere and the approach taken by MN E-Democracy. Here is a quote: Extending the Public Sphere through Cyberspace: The Way Forward? Minnesota E-Democracy has been able to overcome many of the shortcomings of other cyber-forums and develop a space for online public discourse that in many ways approximates the public sphere conception. It has maximized its autonomy from state and corporate interests, stimulated reflexivity, fostered respectful listening and participant commitment to the ongoing dialogue, achieved open and honest exchange, and provided equal opportunity for all voices to be heard. This has all been accomplished by the use of a structured e-mail list, the formalization of rules and guidelines, the careful management of the forum, the development of self-ownership and self-moderation, and the focus on issues shared by those living within a particular geographically bounded political jurisdiction. See: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_3/dahlberg/ More articles below. Cheers, Steven Clift ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 11:13:06 -0600 From: Edward J. Valauskas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: First Monday March 2001 Dear Reader, The March 2001 issue of First Monday (volume 6, number 3) is now available at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_3/ ------- Table of Contents Volume 6, Number 3 - March 5th 2001 Playing the Links: Interactivity and Stickiness in .Com and "Not.Com" Web Sites by Debora Shaw http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_3/shaw/ Extending the Public Sphere Through Cyberspace: The Case of Minnesota E-Democracy by Lincoln Dahlberg http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_3/dahlberg/ Intermittent Aberrations: Can Mature Companies Innovate? by Sharon Doheny http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_3/doheny/ Virtual Connections: Community Bonding on the Net by Stuart Glogoff http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_3/glogoff/ "The Big Lie" and the Great Newspaper Caper by Albert Henderson http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_3/henderson/ A Response to Mr. Henderson by Richard J. Cox http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_3/cox/ FM Reviews http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_3/reviews/ ---------------------------- You've received this message because you're registered to First Monday's Table of Contents service. You can unsubscribe to this service by sending a reply containing the word unsubscribe in the body of the message or use the form at: http://firstmonday.org/join.html First Monday Editorial Group *** Please send submissions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** To subscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Message body: SUB DO-WIRE *** *** To unsubscribe instead, write: UNSUB DO-WIRE *** *** Please forward this post to others and encourage *** *** them to subscribe to the free DO-WIRE service. ***
