National Civic Review articles from September 2000

National Civic Review archives from September 2000

NOTE FROM THE PRESIDENT.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... The history of the impact of the printed word on society has been well documented. Historians have linked the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution to the development of the printing press. Although it is too early to tell...

Technology, Democracy, and the Creation of Community.
September 22, 2000... Recent advances in technology, especially the rapid expansion of the Internet, have created new opportunities for business, governance, education, and civic participation, as more and more people are connected to one another. Technology...

Does the Internet Strengthen Community?
September 22, 2000... Suppose that, in the summer of 1952, someone had organized a conference on the social consequences of television. The participants would have faced two crucial problems. First, social reality was moving faster than empirical scholarship....

Community Formation and Dynamics in the Virtual Metropolis.
September 22, 2000... In his 1984 book Neuromancer William Gibson introduced the word cyberspace. As characterized by Gibson, cyberspace is "a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation... A graphic...

E-Democracy: Ready or Not, Here It Comes.
September 22, 2000... The best way to predict the future is to create it. Peter Drucker American democracy is about to change. This change will involve deep, structural, even seismic shifts that will move this country away from its traditional reliance on...

E-Democracy: Thinking About the Impact of Technology on Civic Life.
September 22, 2000... Ultimately, modern telecommunications is neither democracy's devil nor its messiah. [1] In The Electronic Commonwealth, scholars Jeffrey Abramson, Christopher Arterton, and Gary Orren note that "over the past several decades, changes in...

The Internet and Democratic Participation.
September 22, 2000... The emergence of the Internet in society gives Americans new opportunities to enhance participation in democratic politics. Numerous entrepreneurs have taken up the challenge of engaging the citizenry in connection with the fall 2000 elections,...

Charter Schools: A Public-Building Strategy That Creates Communities.
September 22, 2000... We expected to open a school. We didn't expect to gain a community.--Parent-founder, Platte River Charter School, Douglas County, Colorado "Despite a long tradition of support for public education, Americans today seem to be halfway out...

Redefining the Web.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Mention the word Internet to most people and they probably think of its value as a business tool or perhaps its potential for on-line commerce. Few would consider the Internet an important tool for civic engagement. But that may be changing...

The Neighbors Building Neighborhoods Initiative in Rochester, New York.
September 22, 2000... In the overlapping circles of professional worlds that collectively constitute the field of community building, the last ten years have seen a revitalization of grassroots democracy in the towns, cities, and counties of America. This movement...

Civic Journalism.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... In its first effort at inventing a new relationship between the newsroom and the Internet, New Hampshire Public Radio came up with an elegantly logical idea. It created an on-line Tax Calculator that last year helped state residents actually...

The Healthy Community Movement: Seven Counterintuitive Next Steps.
September 22, 2000... In 1984, when Trevor Hancock was working in the city of Toronto's Department of Public Health, he invited Leonard Duhl, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, to speak at a conference on public health. Professor Duhl gave a...