In this systematic and mutual interrogation of radical democratic theory and Internet practice, contributors examine a range of democratic theories in relation to online communication and explore how such communication may advance democracy beyond what is conceptualized and practised within present liberal-capitalist political contexts.

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DARIN BARNEY Research Chair in Technology and Citizenship at McGill University, Canada PETER DAHLGREN Professor of Media and Communication, Lund University, Sweden JODI DEAN Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York, USA JOHN DOWNEY Senior Lecturer, Communication and Media, Loughborough University, UK NICK DYER-WITHEFORD Associate Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, Canada MARIANNE FRANKLIN Senior Lecturer, Social and Political Theory, University for Humanistics, The Netherlands JOSS HANDS Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, and is a visiting lecturer at Roskilde University, Denmark TIM JORDAN Reader in Sociology, The Open University, UK RICHARD KAHN Teaching Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles, USA DOUGLAS KELLNER George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education, UCLA, USA MARK POSTER Professor of History, University of California, USA. He is Chair of the Department of Film and Media Studies and a member of the History Department

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Notes on Contributors Introduction: Tracing Radical Democracy and the Internet; L.Dahlberg & E.Siapera Globalization, Technopolitics and Radical Democracy; R.Kahn & D.Kellner Radical Citizenship in the Republic of Technology: A Sketch; D.Barney Civic Identity and Net Activism: the Frame of Radical Democracy; P.Dahlgren Online Direct Action: Hactivism and Radical Democracy; T.Jordan Between Radical and Deliberative Politics: Towards a Radical e-Democracy; J.Hands Participation and/or Deliberation? The Internet as a Tool for Achieving Radical Democratic Aims; J.Downey The Internet and Discursive Exclusion: From Deliberative to Agonistic Public Sphere Theory; L.Dahlberg Multicultural Radical Democracy and Online Islam; E.Siapera Democracy, Postcolonialism, and Everyday Life: Contesting the 'Royal "We" Online; M.Franklin Hegemony or Multitude? Two Versions of Radical Democracy for the Net; N.Dyer-Witheford Internet Piracy as Radical Democracy?; M.Poster Feminism, Communicative Capitalism, and the Inadequacies of Radical Democracy; J.Dean Index