Radical Democracy and the Internet: Interrogating Theory and Practice

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Tracing Radical Democracy and the Internet....Pages 1-16
Globalization, Technopolitics, and Radical Democracy....Pages 17-36
Radical Citizenship in the Republic of Technology: A Sketch....Pages 37-54
Civic Identity and Net Activism: The Frame of Radical Democracy....Pages 55-72
Online Direct Action: Hacktivism and Radical Democracy....Pages 73-88
Between Agonistic and Deliberative Politics: Towards a Radical E-Democracy....Pages 89-107
Participation and/or Deliberation? The Internet as a Tool for Achieving Radical Democratic Aims....Pages 108-127
The Internet and Discursive Exclusion: From Deliberative to Agonistic Public Sphere Theory....Pages 128-147
Multicultural Radical Democracy and Online Islam....Pages 148-167
Democracy, Postcolonialism, and Everyday Life: Contesting the ‘Royal “We”’ Online....Pages 168-190
Hegemony or Multitude? Two Versions of Radical Democracy for the Net....Pages 191-206
Internet Piracy as Radical Democracy?....Pages 207-225
Feminism, Communicative Capitalism, and the Inadequacies of Radical Democracy....Pages 226-245
Back Matter....Pages 246-251