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I asked Lars to send along an announcement about his just released PhD dissertation. The English abstract and summary make it quite accessible and worth a read. Steven Clift Democracies Online P.S. Speaking of Sweden, would anyone like to put together a quick summary of the high and lowlights of your recent elections and the Internet. Anything new? Anything interesting? ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "Lars Ilshammar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Front report 2.0 The public sphere in Sweden has in fact deteriorated during a period of rapid technological and political change, when increasing attention has been given to information technology as a new tool for improving democracy and empowering citizens. These are among the more important finding in a new dissertation by Lars Ilshammar, PhD-student in contemporary history at the University of Örebro, Sweden, and presented in the beginning of June. Ilshammar describes the transformation of the public sphere in Sweden during the period 1969-1999, and analyses the role of information technology and politics in the process, with special attention to the legal system and the technical infrastructure. The English title of the dissertation is: "The New Public Sphere: Technology and Politics in Sweden 1969-1999". The full text (with an abstract and a summary in English) can be downloaded in PDF-format from: http://130.243.97.200/mlnn/democrit//ilshammar/avhandling.pdf Ilshammar is now taking over the position as director of the DemocrIT research programme at the same university, while media professor Stig- Arne Nohrstedt remains in the position as scientific head. The DemocrIT programme will give a PhD-course on the Network Society later this fall. The course is open to PhD-student in all the Nordic countries. Interested students can get in contact with: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More information about the course and about DemocrIT can be found on the website: http://www.democrit.org ------- End of forwarded message ------- ^ ^ ^ ^ Steven L. Clift - W: http://www.publicus.net Minneapolis - - - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota - - - - - T: +1.612.822.8667 USA - - - - - - - ICQ: 13789183 *** Past Messages, Discussion http://e-democracy.org/do *** *** To subscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Message body: SUB DO-WIRE *** *** To UNSUBSCRIBE instead, write: UNSUB DO-WIRE *** *** Please forward this post to others and encourage *** *** them to subscribe to the free DO-WIRE service. *** *** Please send submissions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
