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POLI 580: The Politics of Cyberspace explores the emergence of the networked society, the information technology revolution, and the consequences for power, production, and culture as examined by such disciplines as political science, political economy, sociology, and communications. Throughout, the course views new information technologies as contested terrain that facilitates domination and resistance, fear and hope.

Unit 1

Supplementary Readings

Abbate, Janet. 1999. Inventing the Internet. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Barney, Darin. 2000. Prometheus Wired: The Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

See especially Chapters 1-3.

Bell, Daniel. 1976. The Coming of the Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting. 2nd ed. New York: Basic Books.

Bell, Gordon, and James N. Gray. 1997. "The Revolution Yet to Happen." In Beyond Calculation: The Next 50 Years of Computing, edited by Peter J. Denning, and R. M. Metcalfe, 5-32. New York: Copernicus.

Beniger, James. 1986. The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Castells, Manuel. 2002. The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business and Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lyon, David. 1988. The Information Society: Issues and Illusions. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Naughton, John. 1999. A Brief History of the Future: The Origins of the Internet. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

Negroponte, Nicholas. 1995. Being Digital. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Schiller, Dan. 1999. Digital Capitalism: Networking in the Global Market System. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Shapiro, Andrew L. 1999. The Control Revolution. New York: Public Affairs.

Stallabrass, Julian. 1995. "Empowering Technology: The Exploration of Cyberspace." New Left Review 211 (May-June): 3-32.

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Webster, Frank. 1995. Theories of the Information Society. NewYork: Routledge.

Unit 2

Supplementary Readings

Bentham, Jeremy. 1995. The Panopticon Writings, edited by Miran Bozovic. London: Verso.

Dandeker, Christopher.

1990. Surveillance, Power and Modernity. New York: St. Martin's Press.

See Chapters 2 and 6.

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Erickson, Richard V., and Kevin D. Haggerty. 1997. Policing the Risk Society. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

See Part II.

Foucault, Michel. 1979. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Pantheon.

See especially pages 195-230.

Gandy, Oscar, Jr.

1993. The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy of Personal Information. Boulder: Westview Press.

See Chapters 1-3.

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Giddens, Anthony.

1987. The Nation-State and Violence. Berkeley: University of California Press.

See Chapters 8 and 9.

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Lyon, David. 1994. The Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

See Part I.

Lyon, Davis, and Elia Zureik.

1996. Computers, Surveillance and Privacy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

See Part I.

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Poster, Mark. 1990. The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Unit 3

Supplementary Readings

Bauman, Zygmunt. 1998. Globalization: The Human Consequences. New York: New York University Press.

Carnoy, Martin, et al., eds. 1993. The New Global Economy in the Information Age. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press.

Deibert, Ronald. 1997. Parchment, Printing and Hypermedia: Communications in World Order Transformation. New York: Columbia University Press.

Held, David, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt, and Johnathan Parraton. 1999. Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Hutton, Will, and A. Giddens. 2000. On the Edge. London: Jonathan Cape.

Sachs, Jeffrey. 1998. "International Economics: Unlocking the Mysteries of Globalization." Foreign Policy (Spring): 97-111.

Shapiro, Carl, and Hal Varian. 1999. Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

Unit 4

Supplementary Readings

Benveniste, Guy. 1994. Twenty-first Century Organization: Analyzing Current Trends, Imagining the Future. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

Boyett, Joseph H., and Henry P. Conn. 1991. Workplace 2000: The Revolution Reshaping American Business. New York: Dutton.

Clegg, Stewart. 1990. Modern Organizations: Organization Studies in the Postmodern World. London: Sage.

Coriat, Benjamin. 1990. L'Atelier et le robot. Paris: Christian Bourgois Editeur.

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Drucker, Peter F. 1988. "The Coming of the New Organization." Harvard Business Review 88: 45-53.

Goodman, P.S., et al. 1990. Technology and Organization. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Tapscott, Don. 1996. The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Tuomi, Ilkka. 1999. Corporate Knowledge: Theory and Practice of Intelligent Organizations. Helsinki: Metaxis.

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Unit 5

Supplementary Readings
See readings by Bauman, Deibert, and Held under Unit 3.

Biersteker, Thomas J., and Cynthia Weber, eds. 1996. State Sovereignty as Social Construct. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cameron, David, and Janice Gross Stein. 2000. "Globalization, Culture and Society: The State as Place Amidst Shifting Spaces." Canadian Public Policy 26: S15-S35.

Courchene, Thomas J., ed. 1999. The Nation State in a Global Information Order: Policy Challenges. Kingston: John Deutsch Institute for Economic Research.

Gill, Stephen. 1995. "The Global Panopticon? The Neoliberal State, Economic Life, and Democratic Surveillance." Alternatives 20(1): 1-49.

Hirst, Paul, and Grahame Thompson. 1996. Globalization in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Krasner, Stephen. 1999. Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Ohmae, Kenichi. 1995. The End of the Nation State: The Rise of Regional Economies. New York: Free Press.

O’Brien, Robert, Anne-Marie Goetz, Jan Aart Scholte, and Marc Williams. 1999. Contesting Global Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Strange, Susan. 1996. The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Weiss, Linda. 1998. The Myth of the Powerless State. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Wolfish, Daniel, and Gordon Smith. 2000. "Governance and Policy in a Multicentric World." Canadian Public Policy 26: S51-S73.

Unit 6

Required Readings

Olesen, Thomas. 2004. “The Transnational Zapatista Solidarity Network: An Infrastructure Analysis.” Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs 4(1) (January): 89–107.

Supplementary Readings

Association for Progressive Communications (APC). 2008.

See various web pages.

Barlow, Maude, and Tony Clarke. 2001. Global Showdown: How the New Activists Are Fighting Global Corporate Rule. Toronto: Stoddart.

Brecher, Jeremy, Tim Costello, and Brendan Smith. 2000. Globalization from Below: The Power of Solidarity. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.

Cleaver, Harry. 2000. “Zapatistas in Cyberspace, A Guide to Analysis and Information."

Council of Canadians. 2008.

See various pages and reports.

Ferdinand, Peter, ed. 2000. The Internet, Democracy and Democratization. London: Frank Cass.

Florini, Ann M., ed. 2000. The Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society. Washington, DC: Carnegie for International Peace.

Global Trade Watch. 2007.

See various web pages.

Independent Media Centre. 2007.

See various web pages.

Institute for Global Communications. 2007.

See various web pages.

International Forum on Globalization. 2007.

See various web pages.

Oneworld.net. 2007.

See various web pages.

Prazniak, Roxann, and Arif Dirlik, eds. 2001. Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

Smith, Peter J. 2001. "The Impact of Globalization on Citizenship: Decline or Renaissance." Journal of Canadian Studies 36(1): 116-141.

Smythe, Elizabeth. 2001. "Repoliticizing Globalization in Canada: From the MAI to Seattle." Journal of Canadian Studies 36(1): 141-166.

Third World Network. 2007.

See various web pages.

Warkentin, Craig. 2001. Reshaping World Politics: NGOs, the Internet, and Global Civil Society. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Webster, Frank, ed. 2001. Culture and Politics in the Information Age: A New Politics? New York: Routledge.

Unit 7

Required Readings

RAWA.

Supplementary Readings

Armstrong, Sally. 2002. Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan. Toronto: Penguin.

Brentjes, Burchard, and Helga Brentjes. 2000. Taliban: A Shadow over Afghanistan. Varanasi: Rishi Publications.

Dartnell, Michael Y. 2003. "Information Technology and the Web Activism of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan: Electronic Politics and New Global Conflict." In Bombs and Bandwidth: The Emerging Relationship Between Information Technology and Security, edited by Robert Latham, 251-267. New York: New Press.

Moghadam, Valentine M. 1990. Revolution En-Gendered: Women and Politics in Iran and Afghanistan. Toronto: York University Press.

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Parisi, Laura. 1999. "World Wide Web Reviews: Women and International Organizatons." Feminist Collections 20(4) (Summer): 11-12.

Rashid, Ahmed. 2000. Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Sreedhar, Sinha, et al. 1997. Taliban and the Afghan Turmoil: The Role of USA, Pakistan, Iran and China. Mumbai: Himalaya Publishing House.

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Unit 8

Required Readings

Kahn, Richard, and Douglas Kellner. 2004. “Oppositional Politics and the Internet: A Critical/ Reconstructive Approach.”

This site has been linked to information maintained by The UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/.

Supplementary Readings

See the special issue on information technologies and democracy in Communications of the ACM, January 2001.

Alexander, Cynthia, and Leslie A. Pal, 1998. Digital Democracy: Policy and Politics in the Wired World. Toronto: Oxford University Press.

Barney, Darin. 2000. Prometheus Wired: The Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

See especially Chapters 1-3.

Bennet, Lance, and Entman, Robert M., eds. 2001. Mediated Politics: Communication in the Future of Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Castells, Manuel. 1997. The Power of Identity. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Davis, Richard. 1999. The Web of Politics. New York: Oxford University Press.

Grossman, Lawrence K. 1995. The Electronic Republic: Reshaping Democracy in the Information Age. New York: Viking.

Loader, Brian, ed. 1997. The Governance of Cyberspace: Politics, Technology and Global Restructuring. London: Routledge.

Norris, Pippa. 2000. "Democratic Divide: The Impact of the Internet on Parliaments Worldwide."

This site has been linked to information maintained by Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government at http://ksghome.harvard.edu.

Norris, Pippa. 2001. Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty and the Internet in Democratic Societies. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Norris, Pippa. 2002. Democratic Phoenix: Reinventing Political Activism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Norris, Pippa. 2000. "The Worldwide Digital Divide: Information Poverty, the Internet and Development." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Political Studies Association of the UK, London School of Economics and Political Science, 10-13, April, 2000.

Norris, Pippa. 2007. Norris's Harvard University Homepage.

This is an excellent site for students interested in communications, the internet and democracy. Resources online include draft chapters of the book above and the book Democratic Phoenix: Political Activism Worldwide. New York: Cambridge University Press. Also available is a course syllabus, “Internet Design for Democracy.”

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Toulouse, Chris, and Timothy Luke, eds. 1998. The Politics of Cyberspace : A New Political Science Reader. London: Routledge.

Tsagarousianou, Roza, Damian Tambini, and Cathy Bryan, eds. 1998. Cyberdemocracy: Technology, Cities and Civic Networks. London: Routledge.

Wilhem, Anthony. 2000. Democracy in the Digital Age: Challenges to Political Life in Cyberspace. New York: Routledge.

Unit 9

Required Readings

Chadwick, Andrew, and Christopher May. 2003. “Interaction Between States and Citizens in the Age of the Internet: ‘e-Government’ in the United States, Britain, and the European Union." Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions 16(2) (April): 271–300.

Longford, Graham. 2004. “Rethinking the Virtual State: A Critical Perspective on E-Government.” In Seeking Convergence in Policy and Practice: Communications in the Public Interest, Vol. 2, ed. M. Moll and L. R. Shade. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

This site has been linked to information maintained by the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information Studies at http://www.fis.utoronto.ca.

Supplementary Readings

Consult materials listed for Unit 8 above, especially the books by Davis, Norris, and Wilhem.

There is an abundance of materials on e-government and e-governance available online including government reports. Please use a good search engine to find the latest sites and reports.

Coleman, Stephen and John Gøtze. Bowling Together: Online Public Engagement in Policy Deliberation.

This online publication references a number of other government reports on e-democracy.

This site has been linked to information maintained by the book's authors at http://bowlingtogether.net/.

Inter-Parliamentary Union. 2000. "Web Sites of National Parliaments: Guidelines for the content and structure of parliamentary Web sites."

Hansard Society, UK. 2007.

The Hansard Society has number of very good reports on e-democracy and parliament online.

Rosell, Steven A. 1999. Renewing Governance: Government by Learning in the Information Age. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.