Overview
- The contributions by scholars and practitioners and the comprehensive analysis by the editor aim at setting an agenda for further debate, research and design, towards a vital knowledge democracy.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Knowledge democracy is an emerging concept that addresses the relationships between knowledge production and dissemination, as well as the functions of the media and democratic institutions. Although democracy has been the most successful concept of governance for societies for the last two centuries, representative democracy, which became the hallmark of advanced nation-states, seems to be in decline. Media politics is an important factor in the downfall of the original meaning of representation, yet more direct forms of democracy have not yet found an institutional embedding. Further, the Internet has also drastically changed the rules of the game, and a better educated public has broad access to information, selects for itself which types to examine, and ignores media filters. Some citizens have even become "media" themselves. In a time where the political agendas are filled with combatting so-called evils, new designs for the relationships between science, politics and media are needed. This book outlines the challenges entailed in pursuing a vital knowledge democracy.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Knowledge Democracy
Book Subtitle: Consequences for Science, Politics, and Media
Editors: Roeland J. in 't Veld
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11381-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-11380-2Published: 11 March 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42459-5Published: 07 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-11381-9Published: 10 March 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 397
Topics: Social Policy, Political Science, Sociology of Education