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Michael Gurevitch

Michael Gurevitch is Professor in the College of Journalism, and Affiliate Faculty, Department of Communication, University of Maryland.

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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.