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Jay G. Blumler

Jay G. Blumler is Emeritus Professor of Public Communication at the University of Leeds.

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The vulnerable potential of the internet

The old ‘new’ media – television, cable TV – have disappointed the civic hopes invested in them. Communication has turned to cacophony. Will the same happen to the internet? Two political scientists lay out an agenda for preventing the corporate takeover of cyberspace; they propose the founding of a radical but credible European civic commons.