DEMOCRATIC FRANCHISE AND THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER

Our present electronic culture has emerged from a conception of Wester n democracy, which can be seen as dialectically grounded in contradict ion and potential inequality. We should expect, therefore, that a 'dem ocratic' electronic culture will manifest itself in a similar dialecti cal form. It will be both more and less liberating, participatory and interactive than was the case with previous, technologically mediated cultural forms.