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Democracy is designed for disagreement; the question is how effectively we debate and deliberate.

Jeff Jarvis • The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet

Or, as Robert Pitofsky put it, we should always be concerned that “excessive concentration of economic power will breed antidemocratic political pressures.”

Tim Wu • The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age

“Why it matters.”

Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity

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Ravi Purushotma • Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning)

As technology revolutionizes the tools we use, it also antiquates our laws, reshapes our morals, and alters our perceptions.

James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

Weakening the soft authority of communities in favor of the hard power of states is likely both to weaken welfare and to diminish liberty.

Moshe Koppel • Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures

We hold that democracy demands equal access to goods, services, and knowledge. The culture of knowledge in America has been a servant of democratic governance. This instrumental view of knowledge meant that three principles would become fundamental to American-style democracy: The press must be free, the government must be open and accountable to t