Anthony G Wilhelm
Biographic Data
| ID | 4208809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony G Wilhelm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony G |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilhelm |
| SIGNATURE | WILHELM A G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Claremont Graduate University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Leveraging Sunken Investments in Communications Infrastructure
Bridging the digital divide between information and technology haves and have-nots has waned from the top of the national policy agenda in the United States during a time in which the sunken investments of the 1990s need to be leveraged. A national information network now exists yet this infrastructure--largely hardware--needs to be continually modernized and parlayed with commitments to building human capacity, developing relevant content, and s…
From Crystal Palaces to Silicon Valleys
Notwithstanding the current business expansion in the USA, it is unclear on the whole how many Americans, including racial and ethnic minorities, have benefited from the strongest economy in 30 years. While some argue that the working poor have gained from a tight labour market, the middle class is no better off than it was at the peak of the last business cycle (Bernstein et al. 1999). One of the problems is that income inequality endures and in…
They threw me a computer but what I really needed was a life preserver
Libraries and museums have a central role to play in ensuring that all Americans are able to access and use effectively emerging communications tools, such as the Internet. These institutions are key pillars of the public sphere of communications, the realm of civil society independent of government and commercial forces that provides citizens the tools to become full participants in republican self-government. This paper identifies four attribut…
Good Fences and Good Neighbors
Often critics who decry the poverty of neutrality as a regulative ideal in contemporary liberal regimes point to John Locke as an early apologist for a kind of toleration that discourages spiritedness in the public sphere. In this paper, I interpret Locke as a thinker who advanced both a right and a duty to toleration. This reconstruction of Locke's doctrine of toleration is salutary not only because he uses a state of nature argument to ground a…
Virtual sounding boards
Emerging forums in cyberspace, accessible using advanced teletechnologies, augur new public and political spaces. A content analysis was conducted of a random sample of postings to Usenet newsgroups, self‐identified as political, to ascertain the extent to which they are being used for democratic deliberation. The results show that these gathering places are, in general, home to an array of overlapping, short‐lived conversations, usually among li…
A Resource Model of Computer‐Mediated Political Life
Using Current Population Survey data, this paper examines the extent to which a person's resources impact his or her ability to participate in computer‐mediated political life. Resources such as universal literacy, background capacities, skills, and training clarify the well‐documented but poorly conceptualized gap in technology access between “haves” and “have nots.” Telecommunications policy does not address seriously the resources one brings t…
Good Fences and Good Neighbors
Often critics who decry the poverty of neutrality as a regulative ideal in contemporary liberal regimes point to John Locke as an early apologist for a kind of toleration that discourages spiritedness in the public sphere. In this paper, I interpret Locke as a thinker who advanced both a right and a duty to toleration. This reconstruction of Locke's doctrine of toleration is salutary not only because he uses a state of nature argument to ground a…
Leveraging Sunken Investments in Communications Infrastructure
Bridging the digital divide between information and technology haves and have-nots has waned from the top of the national policy agenda in the United States during a time in which the sunken investments of the 1990s need to be leveraged. A national information network now exists yet this infrastructure--largely hardware--needs to be continually modernized and parlayed with commitments to building human capacity, developing relevant content, and s…
A Resource Model of Computer‐Mediated Political Life
Using Current Population Survey data, this paper examines the extent to which a person's resources impact his or her ability to participate in computer‐mediated political life. Resources such as universal literacy, background capacities, skills, and training clarify the well‐documented but poorly conceptualized gap in technology access between “haves” and “have nots.” Telecommunications policy does not address seriously the resources one brings t…
A Resource Model of Computer‐Mediated Political Life
Using Current Population Survey data, this paper examines the extent to which a person's resources impact his or her ability to participate in computer‐mediated political life. Resources such as universal literacy, background capacities, skills, and training clarify the well‐documented but poorly conceptualized gap in technology access between “haves” and “have nots.” Telecommunications policy does not address seriously the resources one brings t…
Virtual sounding boards
Emerging forums in cyberspace, accessible using advanced teletechnologies, augur new public and political spaces. A content analysis was conducted of a random sample of postings to Usenet newsgroups, self‐identified as political, to ascertain the extent to which they are being used for democratic deliberation. The results show that these gathering places are, in general, home to an array of overlapping, short‐lived conversations, usually among li…
Good Fences and Good Neighbors
Often critics who decry the poverty of neutrality as a regulative ideal in contemporary liberal regimes point to John Locke as an early apologist for a kind of toleration that discourages spiritedness in the public sphere. In this paper, I interpret Locke as a thinker who advanced both a right and a duty to toleration. This reconstruction of Locke's doctrine of toleration is salutary not only because he uses a state of nature argument to ground a…
From Crystal Palaces to Silicon Valleys
Notwithstanding the current business expansion in the USA, it is unclear on the whole how many Americans, including racial and ethnic minorities, have benefited from the strongest economy in 30 years. While some argue that the working poor have gained from a tight labour market, the middle class is no better off than it was at the peak of the last business cycle (Bernstein et al. 1999). One of the problems is that income inequality endures and in…
They threw me a computer but what I really needed was a life preserver
Libraries and museums have a central role to play in ensuring that all Americans are able to access and use effectively emerging communications tools, such as the Internet. These institutions are key pillars of the public sphere of communications, the realm of civil society independent of government and commercial forces that provides citizens the tools to become full participants in republican self-government. This paper identifies four attribut…
Leveraging Sunken Investments in Communications Infrastructure
Bridging the digital divide between information and technology haves and have-nots has waned from the top of the national policy agenda in the United States during a time in which the sunken investments of the 1990s need to be leveraged. A national information network now exists yet this infrastructure--largely hardware--needs to be continually modernized and parlayed with commitments to building human capacity, developing relevant content, and s…
Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Digital divide (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Economics (2 works)