Veřejná sféra a soukromá sféra, deliberace, problematika přístupu a digital divide, transformace demokracie, přístupy, bariéry, e-government, elektronické volby, watchdogy

Povinná literatura:

·         Papacharissi, Z.A. 2010. The Public Sphere Expired? On the democratizing potential of convergent technologies. Pp. 113-130 in Papacharissi, Z. A Private Sphere: Democracy in a Digital Age. Polity.

·                Dahlberg, L. 2011. Re-constructing digital democracy: An outline of four positions. New Media and Society 13 (6): 855-872.

Doporučená literatura:

• Ester, P. – Vinken, H. 2003. „On the Fear for Civic Decline and Hope for the Internet Alternative.“ International Sociology 18 (4): 659-680.
• Gibson, R. - Rommele, A. – Ward, S. 2004. Electronic Democracy: Mobilisation, Organisation and Participation via new ICTs. Routledge.
• Habermas, J. 2000. Strukturální přeměna veřejnosti. Praha: Filosofia.
• Norris, P. 2001. Digital divide: civic engagement, information poverty, and the Internet worldwide. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Dahlgren, P. 2001. The Transformation of Democracy? Pp. 64-88 in: Axford , B. – Hugins, R. (eds.). New Media and Politics. London: SAGE Publications.
• Chadwick, A. 2009. Web 2.0: New Challenges for the Study of E-Democracy in an Era of Informational Exuberance. I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society 5 (1): 9-41.