1、In the developed world, the internet is now ubiquitous. The issue is no longer whether politics is online, but in what form and with what consequences? Even in the developing world, the internet is diffusing at a breathtaking rate. My aim in this book is to provide a clear, accessible, and comprehensive overview of the politics of the internet——one that synthesizes the best contemporary scholarly research rather than the hype and speculation that bedevils both mainstream media coverage and the think tanks, corporations, and self-appointed experts. The overriding question driving my account is this: is the internet ,by reconfiguring the relations between states and between citizens and states, causing fundamental shifts in patterns of governance? Put more bluntly, is the internet changing how we do politics and how we think about politics? To address these problems, I focus on key contemporary debates about the role and influence of the internet and related technologies on the values, processes, and outcomes of public bureaucracies.
2.Over the last decade, political actors of all kinds have become much more closely involved in the production, consumption, and regulation of information communication technologies than they were when the internet first emerged. This is not to say that states were not involved in the internet’s development. As we shall see in chapter 3, the U.S. federal governmental played an influential role in fostering computer networking during the 1960s. However, only in the last few years have political actors sought to harness its potential, regulate it, and sanction the development of new legal regimes to deal with it various by-products, like copyright infringement, new economic monopolies, or privacy and surveillance issues. This book is about this changing terrain. Its organizing assumption is the internet now more heavily politicized than at any time in its short history, and this trend is likely to intensify.
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