Welcome to the Internet and Democracy site

 

In this webpage we hope to examine the different issues that arise as a result of the interaction between the new medium of the internet and democracy.

Whether one sees the internet as having a positive or negative effect on the democratic process will ultimately be decided by one's conception of what American democracyis, what it should be, and what it was meant to be.

 

 

Considering the concepts

of democracy,

how will the internet affect

essential democratic processes?

 

 

"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion."

- Thomas Jefferson