Democracy 2.0 - An Upgrade?

Has the Internet democratized American politics? Did the Internet phenomenon Democracy 2.0 elect Barack Obama? Program on Global Justice Director Joshua Cohen, professor of law, philosophy, and political science, offers his perspective that despite conventional wisdom, the Internet was not, in fact, responsible for putting a Democrat in the White House this election cycle.

At the Information Technology and the Public Good conference hosted by Google and Microsoft from February 28 to March 1, and put on by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Joshua Cohen insisted that, despite conventional  wisdom, the Internet was not, in fact, responsible for putting a Democrat in the White House this election cycle.


Cohen's commentary is highlighted in the Ars Technica article "Report: Democracy 2.0 not quite the upgrade we first thought."