Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 February 2006
The Network Society. By Darin Barney. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004. 198p. $57.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.
Democracy Online. Edited by Peter M. Shane. New York: Routledge Press, 2004. 279p. $28.50 paper.
Political science has a lot to contribute to—and learn from—the study of the politics of information and communications technologies (ICTs). The two books under review illustrate these possibilities and limitations as the academic discourse on “IT” is currently configured.