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UNINA9910786175403321 |
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Watts Lewis <1946-> |
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New Orleans suite [[electronic resource] ] : music and culture in transition / / Lewis Watts and Eric Porter |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013 |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Popular music - Social aspects - Louisiana - New Orleans |
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 - Social aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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New Orleans, America, music -- Reflections on Jazz Fest 2006 -- Parading against violence -- Reconstruction's soundtrack -- To reinvent life. |
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With New Orleans Suite, Eric Porter and Lewis Watts join the post-Katrina conversation about New Orleans and its changing cultural scene. Using both visual evidence and the written word, Watts and Porter pay homage to the city, its region, and its residents, by mapping recent and often contradictory social and cultural transformations, and seeking to counter inadequate and often pejorative accounts of the people and place that give New Orleans its soul. Focusing for the most part on the city's African American community, New Orleans Suite is a story about people: how bad things have happened to them in the long and short run, how they have persevered by drawing upon and transforming their cultural practices, and what they can teach us about citizenship, politics, and society. |
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UNINA9910779330203321 |
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McGinnis John O. <1957-> |
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Accelerating democracy [[electronic resource] ] : transforming governance through technology / / John O. McGinnis |
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2013 |
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1-283-86413-4 |
1-4008-4545-9 |
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[Core Textbook] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Information technology - Political aspects |
Technological innovations - Political aspects |
Democracy |
Democratization |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter one. The Ever Expanding Domain of Computation -- Chapter two. Democracy, Consequences, and Social Knowledge -- Chapter three. Experimenting with Democracy -- Chapter four. Unleashing Prediction Markets -- Chapter five. Distributing Information through Dispersed Media and Campaigns -- Chapter six. Accelerating AI -- Chapter seven. Regulation in an Age of Technological Acceleration -- Chapter eight. Bias and Democracy -- Chapter nine. De-biasing Democracy -- Conclusion. The Past and Future of Information Politics -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index |
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Successful democracies throughout history--from ancient Athens to Britain on the cusp of the industrial age--have used the technology of their time to gather information for better governance. Our challenge is no different today, but it is more urgent because the accelerating pace of technological change creates potentially enormous dangers as well as benefits. Accelerating Democracy shows how to adapt democracy to new information technologies that can enhance political decision making and enable us to navigate the social rapids ahead. John O. McGinnis demonstrates how these new technologies combine to |
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address a problem as old as democracy itself--how to help citizens better evaluate the consequences of their political choices. As society became more complex in the nineteenth century, social planning became a top-down enterprise delegated to experts and bureaucrats. Today, technology increasingly permits information to bubble up from below and filter through more dispersed and competitive sources. McGinnis explains how to use fast-evolving information technologies to more effectively analyze past public policy, bring unprecedented intensity of scrutiny to current policy proposals, and more accurately predict the results of future policy. But he argues that we can do so only if government keeps pace with technological change. For instance, it must revive federalism to permit different jurisdictions to test different policies so that their results can be evaluated, and it must legalize information markets to permit people to bet on what the consequences of a policy will be even before that policy is implemented. Accelerating Democracy reveals how we can achieve a democracy that is informed by expertise and social-scientific knowledge while shedding the arrogance and insularity of a technocracy. |
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