Digital Technology & Democracy
“Not all people are as well-informed as they could be, but information alone has never been sufficient to motivate political judgment or action, and a lack of information is not what prevents most of us from taking the risk of disruptive judgment and action. The distribution of possibility and impossibility is a material question more than it is a question of information.”
Darin Barney. Bad Faith Cycles in Algorithmic Cultivation podcast. McMaster University. October, 18 2021
The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age. University of Minnesota Press. 2016. Co-edited with Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne and Tamar Tembeck. Intro.
Publics without politics: surplus publicity as depoliticization. Publicity and the Canadian State: Critical Communications Approaches. Kirsten Kozolanka (ed.). University of Toronto Press. 2014.
Pull up the stakes and fill in the ditches: the materiality of intellectual property. Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online. Rosemary Coombe, Darren Wershler & Martin Zelinger (eds.) University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Gut feelings: A Response to Norm Friesen’s “Dissection and Simulation.” Technē: Research in Philosophy and Technology. Fall 2011.
Publics and the Public Sphere Today – The Origins of the Modern Public. Ideas. CBC Radio One. 30 June 2010.
Communication technology. The Canadian Democratic Audit: Volume 10. William Cross (ed.), UBC Press. 2010.
Terminal City? Art, Information and the Augmenting of Vancouver. The Wireless Spectrum: The Politics, Practices and Poetics of Mobile Media. Barbara Crow, Michael Longford and Kim Sawchuk, (eds.), University of Toronto Press. 2010.
Politics and emerging media: the revenge of publicity. Global Media Journal (Canadian Edition) 1:1. Fall 2008.
Radical Citizenship in the Republic of Technology: A Sketch. Radical Democracy and the Internet. Lincoln Dahlberg and Eugenia Siapera, (eds.). Palgrave MacMillan. 2007.
The Internet and Political Communication in Canadian Party Politics: The View from 2004. Canadian Parties in Transition. 3rd edition. A.-G. Gagnon and B. Tanguay (eds.). Broadview Press. 2007.
One Nation under Google: Citizenship in the Technological Republic. The 2007 Hart House Lecture. Hart House Lectures/Coach House Books. 2007.
The Culture of Technology in Canada. Canadian Issues/Thèmes Canadiens. Winter 2007.
The Multiplication of Media Platforms: The ‘Privatization’ of Media. Policy Options/Options politique. 27:2. February 2006.
Be Careful What You Wish For: Dilemmas of Democracy and Technology. Canadian Journal of Communication. 30:4. 2006.
The Morning After: Citizen Engagement in Technological Society. Technē: Research in Philosophy and Technology. 9:3. Spring 2006.
Communication Technology: The Canadian Democratic Audit. UBC Press. 2005. Chapter 1.
The Vanishing Table, or Community in a World that is No World. TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. 11. Spring 2004.
Communication versus Obligation: The Moral Status of Virtual Community. Globalization, Technology and Philosophy. D. Tabachnick & T. Koivukoski (eds.). SUNY Press. 2004.
The Democratic Deficit in Canadian ICT Policy and Regulation. Communication in the Public Interest Volume 2: Seeking Convergence in Policy and Practice. Marita Moll and Leslie Regan Shade (eds.). Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. 2004.
The Network Society. Polity Press. 2004.
Community in the Digital Age: Philosophy and Practice. Rowman and Littlefield. 2004. Co-edited with Andrew Feenberg. Intro.
Invasions of Publicity: Digital Networks and the Privatization of the Public Sphere. New Perspectives on the Public-Private Divide. Law Commission of Canada Legal Dimensions. UBC Press. 2003.
Prometheus Wired: The Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology. UBC Press (Canada/U.K.); University of Chicago Press (U.S.A.); University of New South Wales Press (Aus./N.Z.). 2000. Chapter 1.
Pushbutton Populism: The Reform Party and the Real World of Teledemocracy. Canadian Journal of Communication. 21:3. Summer 1996.