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The stuff that myths are made of

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14 January 2009Although there are many other interesting questions scholars and commentators could be asking about the impact of the internet on society and culture, a lot of the debate has revolved around the degree to which politics is being changed by online activism. As a political tool the internet is neither ?top down? nor ?bottom up,? argues Mark Bahnisch in this review of Matthew Hindman's The Myth of Digital Democracy.

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