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The Network Society and Democracy Online

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2006

Ernest J. Wilson
Ernest J. Wilson
Affiliation:
University of Maryland
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The Network Society. By Darin Barney. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004. 198p. $57.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.

Democracy Online. Edited by Peter M. Shane. New York: Routledge Press, 2004. 279p. $28.50 paper.

Political science has a lot to contribute to—and learn from—the study of the politics of information and communications technologies (ICTs). The two books under review illustrate these possibilities and limitations as the academic discourse on “IT” is currently configured.

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BOOK REVIEWS: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 218 - 219
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© 2006 American Political Science Association

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