http://www.technologyandsocialaction.org/node/54 Comments for "Richard Barbrook's new book" en http://www.technologyandsocialaction.org/node/54#comment-459 <p>Colleagues</p> <p>I need some case studies and data to help me project trends in citizen participation in the UK. Are you able to assist? I need this data for a presentation at a closed roundtable meeting.</p> <p>Thanks in advance </p> <p>Joseph Savirimuthu</p> <p><a href="mailto:jsaviri@liverpool.ac.uk">jsaviri@liverpool.ac.uk</a></p> <br class="clear" /> Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:30:14 +0000 jsaviri comment 459 at http://www.technologyandsocialaction.org http://www.technologyandsocialaction.org/node/54 <p>Hi all,</p> <p>I've just seen this <a href="http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2096653,00.html">Guardian article about Richard Barbrook's new book</a> in today's paper. It looks a good read. He co-authored an interesting essay a few years ago about the Internet as Californian ideology: the central argument was essentially that the Internet reflects the particular historical mix of the social liberalism and free market Reaganomics dominant in post 1960s California, which was the particular environment of much of the early development.</p> <br class="clear" /><p><a href="http://www.technologyandsocialaction.org/node/54">read more</a></p> http://www.technologyandsocialaction.org/node/54#comments critical information systems Literature Review technological determinism Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:17:24 +0100 Steve_Walker 54 at http://www.technologyandsocialaction.org