Publisher's Synopsis
Ever since openDemocracy was founded, its readers and contributors have engaged in rigorous discussions of the medium on which it relies - the internet. Over the last nine years openDemocracy has charted and commented on the emergence of those issues which have formed the current information culture: the copyright revolution and the rise of Creative Commons licensing, the evolution of citizen journalism and its effect on the traditional press, and the erosion of privacy. This volume brings together seven years of observation and debate on the growth of the internet from the leading thinkers and pioneers of new media, and examines the radical reframing of our ideas of citizenry, liberty, democracy and state which this all-pervasive system demands. Contributors: Charlie Beckett, David M Berry, Tom Chance, Felix Cohen, James Crabtree, Li Datong, Todd Gitlin, Paul Hilder, Becky Hogge, Emily MacManus, Evgeny Morozov, Tony Curzon Price, Richard Stallman, Ransom Stephens, Bill Thompson, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Jack Valenti, Tamara Witschge, Jonathan Zittrain
