Below please find notes for the talk I will give on March 31, 2008 at the Annual Doctoral Conference of the Poltical Science Department of Central European University. As befits the topic and this blog, I will be updating this page periodically to add resources and fill in the blanks. If you are reading this, I would appreciate your input in two ways:
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Introduction:
What’s a geek like me doing in a place like this…
I. Technology and Politics
- Aristotle and Arendt–Politics and Techne
- Polsby–Air Conditioning and the Republican South (See: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Polsby/polsby-con4.html
- Putnam–Television and Civic Engagement
(see: http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=4972) - Enyedi–Technology and Cleavage Formation ^
(see also: http://www.la.wayne.edu/polisci/kdk/papers/ecpr_cleavages.pdf)
II. The Web and Politics
- Pew Charitable Trust, “No Revolution, Yet”
(see: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/85/the-internet-and-politics-no-revolution-yet - http://pewresearch.org/pubs/689/the-internets-broader-role-in-campaign-2008
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TechPresident (see: http://ww.techpresident.com) - New Politics Institute (see:
- http://www.newpolitics.net)
- Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, (see: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/about)
- Andrew Chadwick-Internet Politics, see: http://www.andrewchadwick.com
- Clinton v. Obama
- Fund raising
- Mobilization
- Message
- (see: The Tech of Obamamania, Wired, http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2008/02/potomac_primaries
The Machinery of Hope, Rolling Stone, http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/obamamachineryofhope)
III. Technology and Political Science
- Working with words
- Working with numbers
- Working with others
- Web 1.0
- Web 2.0
- O’Reilly on Web2.0
- http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
- Wikipedia on Web2.0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2
IV. Web 2.0 and political science?
- “Good News About What You Are Already Doing”
- Folksonomies
- Collective Intelligence
- Distributed Processing
- Reputation Economies
- Object-centered social networks
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/09/internet.web20/print
- Andrew Chadwick’s Furl list:
http://www.furl.net/member/Andrew_Chadwick - Andrew Chadwick explains his Furl list: http://www.andrewchadwick.com/archives/2008/02/entry_188.html
- Jo Guldi explains how she uses del.icio.us in research:
(see: http://landscape.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-delicious-is-changing-academic.html) - Educause, Seven Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking, http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7001.pdf
- Opportunities
- Dangers
- Obligations