Cultivating society's civic intelligence: Patterns for a new 'world brain'

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 157-181

  Schuler, Doug ^a  

^a EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Activist Networks; Advocacy networks; Civic intelligence; Community networking; Democracy; ICT; Public sphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039730878     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180110044434     Document Type: Article

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