The Socialist Blues? Citizenship, Class and Civil Society

Citizenship and Transnational Space: Argentine Civil Society and the Context of Mercosur JAMIE

Digital citizenship: The Internet, society, and participation

• society online Internet use is integral to citizenship in • an information age Political and economic uses of the Inter-• net differ from other activities online Karen Mossberger will present the theoretical framework and findings from her recent co-authored book, Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Society and Participation (K. Moss-berger, C. Tolbert and R. McNeal, MIT Press, 2008). Public p...

democracy and civil society

since there are various views on the civil society, in this paper the writer first introduces two main views, a limited view and a broad view, explaining the concept based on these two views. the two views, formed by social and political theorists, are firmly grounded in political and social literature. to explain the concept, the writer introduces the indexes of the civil society, the most imp...

Digital Restructuring: Gender, Class and Citizenship in the Information Society in Canada

‘Digital restructuring’ denotes a phenomenon integral to but also distinct within economic and political restructuring broadly conceived. The concept of restructuring can be modiŽ ed with ‘digital’ to forefront the important technological dimension of global restructuring, as well as to indicate developments associated with the new ‘information economy’. Digital technology and digitization have...

The Society of the Spectacle Revisited: Separation, Schooling, and the Pursuit of Dangerous Citizenship

In this paper we set out to accomplish several goals. Primarily, we seek to re-interpret Guy Debord’s (1967) work The Society of the Spectacle in light of modern-day schooling, principally within North America (although we recognize the global connectivity inherent in any current discussion of formal education). In addition, we aim to utilize Debord’s conceptualizations as a series of means and...