PIAS

The final report from this project is available here:

This project is funded by the Institute for a Broadband Enables Society (IBES) at the University of Melbourne. It explores the evolving applications of online political information tools in an Australian and International context, and examines deliberative processes. Project web site: (link)

References and further reading for PIAS (Political Information Analysis System)

1. Barr, Trevor. Newmedia.com.au: The Changing Face of Australia’s Media and Communications, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2000.
2. Bimber, Bruce A. Information and American Democracy: Technology in the Evolution of Political Power, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003.
3. Bolter, J D & Grusin, R, Remediation: Understanding New Media, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, 2000.
4. Bourdieu, Pierre, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste(1984).
5. Brandenburg, H ‘Pathologies of the Virtual Public Sphere’ in Oates, S, Owen, D, and Gibson, K. The Internet and Politics: Citizens, Voters, and Activists, Routledge, New York, 2006, pp.207-222.
6. Burgmann, Verity, Power, Profit and Protest: Australian Social Movements and Globalisation, NSW, Allen and Unwin, Crows Nest, 2003.
7. Carson, L ‘Avoiding ghettos of like-minded people: Random selection and organisational collaboration’ in S. Schuman, (ed) Creating a Culture of Collaboration, ed. Jossey Bass/Wiley.pp.418-423.
8. Carson, L. and Hartz-Karp, J. (forthcoming). “Adapting and Combining Deliberative Designs: Juries, Polls, and Forums”, in Gastil, G. & Levine, P. The Deliberative Democracy Handbook: Strategies for Effective
9. Civic Engagement in the Twenty-First Century , Jossey Bass , USA, 2005,pp.120-138
10. Castells, M. The Rise of the Network Society,
11. Deacon, David, ‘Non-Governmental Organizations and the Media’ in News, public relations and power, Simon Cottle (ed), Sage, London, 2003.
12. Deacon, D., ‘The voluntary sector in a changing communication environment’, European Journal of Communication 11(2), 173-99.
13. Dryser, J.S, Deliberative Democracy and Beyond, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000.
14. Elster, J ‘Introduction’ in Elster, J. (ed.) Deliberative Democracy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992.
15. Ferdinand, Peter (ed), The Internet, Democracy and Democratisation, Routledge, London, 2005.
16. Fishkin, James. Democracy and Deliberation: New Directions for Democratic Reform, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1991.
17. 17.  Goggin, Gerald. Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2004
18. Habermas, Jürgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An inquiry into a category of Bourgeois Society
19. Hall, S. et.al. Policing the Crisis, Macmillan, London, 1978.
20. Hammond, T., Hannay, T, Lund, B, and Scott, J. “Social Bookmarking Tools (1), D-LIB Magazine, Vol.11 No.4, available at www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/hammond/04hammond.html (Accessed 12 October, 2006)
21. Hassan, Robert. Media, Politics, and the Network Society, Open University Press, Maidenhead, 2004.
22. Hrebenar, Ronald J. and Matthew J. Burbank Robert C. Benedict, Political Parties, Interest Groups and Political Campaigns,. ; Oxford: Westview, Boulder, Colo. 1999.
23. Howe, Jeff. “The Rise of Crowdsourcing” Wired Magazine, Issue, 14.06, June 2006. Available online at:
24. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/crowds.html (Accessed 21 October 2006).
25. McNair, Brian, ‘Pressure group politics and the oxygen of publicity’ in McNair, Brian, An Introduction to Political Communication, Routledge, London, 1995, pp.137-56.
26. McCarty, W. Humanities Computing, Palgrave, New York, 2005
27. Negroponte, N, Being Digital, Coronet, London, 1995.
28. Oates, S, Owen, D, and Gibson, RK, The Internet and Politics: Citizens, Voters, and Activists, Routledge, New York, 2006
29. Pocock, J.G.A . ‘Verbalising a political act’, Political Theory, vol 1, no 1, 1973, pp 27-45, pp 31-6.
30. Rheingold, H. The Virtual Community, Secker & Warburg, London, 1994 Online at: http://www.well.com/user/hlr/vbook
31. Shapiro, A, ‘The Internet’, Foreign Policy, Summer: 14-27, 1999.
32. Shenk, D, Data Smog, Abacus, San Francisco, (1997).
33. Toffler, A, & Toffler, H, Creating a New Civilisation: The Politics of the Third Wave, Turner Publications, Atlanta, 1995
34. Virilio, P ‘Speed and Information: Cyberspace Alarm!’  www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=72 (1995).
35. Wark, McKenzie. A Hacker Manifesto, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 2004.
36. Wright, S. Design Matters: The Political Efficacy of Government-run Discussion Boards, in Oates, S, Owen, D, and Gibson, K. The Internet and Politics: Citizens, Voters, and Activists, Routledge, New York, 2006, pp.80-99.
37. Yankel, Elizabeth ‘Archives and Manuscripts: Inviting the User Into the Virtual Archives’ OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives, Vol.22, No.3., 2006, pp translated by Thomas Burger with the assistance of Frederick Lawrence. Mass. MIT Press, Cambridge, 1989. (Accessed 4 October, 2006).

Electronic

1. Berners-Lee, Tim Lecture on the Future of the Internet at Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford:<http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/?view=Webcast&ID=20060314_139> (Accessed 17 May, 2010).
2. Carson, Lyn, Active Democracy: Citizen Participation in Decision Making <http://www.activedemocracy.net/> (Accessed 17 May, 2010)
3. Chen, Peter et.al ‘Proceedings of the Australian Electronic Governance Forum’ The University of Melbourne, 2004 (CD ROM)
4. Coleman, S. & Gotze, J. Bowling Together: Online Public Engagement in Policy Deliberation, Hansard Society (2001) <http://www.bowlingtogether.net/bowlingtogether.pdf>(Accessed 17 May, 2010)
5. Ghosh, Pallab ‘Web Inventor Fears for Future’ BBC Online <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6108578.stm> (Accessed 17 May, 2010)
6. Deliberative Democracy Consortium http://deliberative-democracy.net/ (Accessed 17 May, 2010)
7. Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) The University of Virginia, <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/> (Accessed 17 May, 2010).
8. Kavanaugh, A et.al ‘Detecting and Facilitating Deliberation at a Local Level’, conference paper given at Online Deliberation 2005 <http://www.online-deliberation.net/conf2005/viewabstract.php?id=38> (Accessed 17 May, 2010).
9. McCarty, Willard “What is Humanities Computing? Towards a Definition of the Field”, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College, London, <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/Humanities/cch/wlm/publications.html>(Accessed 17 May, 2010).
10. O’Reilly, Tim, What Is Web 2.0 Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software, O’Reilly Media (2005) http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html (Accessed 17 May, 2010).
11. Michael Payne on ‘The Media Report’ on Radio National aired 19 October, 2006. <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/> (Accessed 17 May, 2010)
12. The Text Encoding Initiative(TEI), <http://www.tei-c.org/>(Accessed 17 May, 2010).