If you’ve ever doubted that democracy is about more than just voting, this is worth a look. A few years ago, the Nobel-winnng economist Amartya Sen penned a fantastic article in the Wall Street Journal (reprising a theme that he had been touting around for some time) that offered an alternative view.
I point to this [...]
Posts on ‘February 4th, 2009’
The dialogic part of the common human inheritance
Digital Britain?
Bill Thompson thinks that it was cooked up in a smoke-free room, more like.
Along with the OfCOM Public Service Broadcasting review, published recently, these issues are of huge importance.
I say all of this as a prelude to urging you to visit Charlie Beckett’s excellent Polis blog where you can find an ongoing discussion of journalism [...]
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? 
