Reformatting Politics

This book examines the ways in which new information and communication technologies are being used by civil society organizations to achieve their aims through activities and networks that cross national borders.

Introduction: The Postdemocratic Governmentality of Networked Societies Part 1: Networks 1. Network is Format Work: The Issue-Network as a Site of Politics and the Challenge of Making Info-Technology Part of Civil Society 2. Organized Networks and Non-Representative Democracy 3. Power Logs, Weblogs, and Inequality 4. The Packet Gang: Openness and its Discontents 5. Anybody Can Be on TV Part 2: Sites 6. Communicating Islamic Fundamentalism as Global Citizenship 7. Lost in Transition: the Internet and Reformasi in Indonesia 8. Exploring the Potential for More Strategic Civil Society Use of Mobile Phones 9. The Potential Role of IT in International Remittance Transfers 10. Network Society and Network Organizations Part 3: Formats 11. Understanding WSIS: An Institutional Analysis of the UN World Summit on the Information Society 12. The End of the Experiment: How ICANN's Foray into Global Internet Democracy Failed 13. Debating Communication Imbalances: from the MacBride Report to WSIS 14. Interview with Milton Mueller: Trial and Error in Internet Governance