Tuesday, July 06, 2004

What is the Meaning of Democracy? Pt. 2

In my summer/fall 2004 courses we are reading Bernard Crick's Democracy: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2002) and Dale Maharidge's Homeland to better understand the issues surrounding the upcoming 2004 Presidential Elections and to develop a clearer sense of our roles as responsible, active, knowledgeable and engaged citizens (at the local/national/global levels). Below I am creating (and will be updating) links to be used to help supplement/define/trouble/question of our study of "democracy":

On Democracy

Core Documents of U.S. Democracy

Constitution Society's Huge Archive of Democratic Texts

The Founders's Constitution: Archive of Democratic Documents

Wikipedia: Democracy

John Dewey's Democracy and Education

Center for Media and Democracy: PR Watch

Center For Digital Democracy

Cultural Democracy

Douglas Rushkoff's Open Source Democracy

Digital Democracy

Zimbardo, Philip G. “Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment Conducted at Stanford University.” Visual/Textual Slide Show Articles on the Experiments

What is Culture?

Remediation: Understanding New Media

Community Culture

Mass Culture

Subcultures: Style & Identity

Experimental Culture: Avant-Garde

High Art Culture

Alternative Culture

Culture Jamming

Culture Jamming 2

Resistance to Corporate Culture

Independent Media in a Time of War

Big Media, Technological Control and the Freeshare Movement

Spin

Propaganda Critic

Disinfopedia

American Political Satire

Project Censored Guide to Progressive Media

Indy Media Movement

World Media Archive

BBC World Media

We Are Everywhere--ed. Notes From Nowhere

Landscapes of Global Capital

Granta #77 “What the World Thinks of America” #83 “This Overheating World” and #84 “How America Sees the World”: Granta Back Issues

Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences

Perseus Project: Classical Greek Texts Online

Critics and Critiques of Ancient Athenian Democracy

The Ancient Greek Democratic Experiment

Demos: Classical Athenian Democracy

Plato's Views on Democracy

Plato: The Character of Democracy

Democracy and Power

Alexis Tocqueville's Democracy in America

Aritotle: The Polis

Machiavelli's The Prince

Machiavelli's Discourses

Machiavelli Biography

John Locke on the Conduct of Understanding

John Locke's "An Essay on Concerning Human Understanding"

Plato's Republic

Rousseau: Social Contract

Philosophy of Education

Freedom of Religion

Politics: A Brief Summary

John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty"

Biography of John Stuart Mill


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