9781557535061-155753506X-Electronic Republic: The Impact of Technology on Education for Citizenship

Electronic Republic: The Impact of Technology on Education for Citizenship

ISBN-13: 9781557535061
ISBN-10: 155753506X
Author: Michael J. Berson, Phillip J. VanFossen
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Format: Paperback 239 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781557535061
ISBN-10: 155753506X
Author: Michael J. Berson, Phillip J. VanFossen
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Format: Paperback 239 pages

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Electronic Republic: The Impact of Technology on Education for Citizenship (ISBN-13: 9781557535061 and ISBN-10: 155753506X), written by authors Michael J. Berson, Phillip J. VanFossen, was published by Purdue University Press in 2008. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Electronic Republic: The Impact of Technology on Education for Citizenship (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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In 1991, Lawrence Grossman wrote that a new political system is taking shape in the United States. As we approach the twenty-first century, America is turning into an electronic republic, a democratic system that is vastly increasing the people's day-to-day influence on decisions of state. Grossman's forecast implied a sea change in the way citizens would interact with, and participate in, their representative government; a revamping of the way Americans would 'do' citizenship. Harnessing the power of technology to promote the ideal of democracy that first pulsed through our nation over 230 years ago may be a feasible achievement in a technocratic age, but whether technology can help achieve a revolution as seismic as the political one that our founding fathers initiated may be a practical impossibility. Indeed, the emergence of the Internet as a nearly ubiquitous element of American society has brought about new opportunities to enhance citizen engagement in democratic politics and to increase the level of civic engagement among American citizens. Despite such rhetoric, however, research has indicated that Grossman's electronic republic has, for the most part, failed to come to fruition.
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