Bits and Atoms

Steven Livingston is Professor of Media and Public and International Affairs at the School of Public Affairs & Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, and he is the author of When The Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina (Chicago, 2007), Clarifying the CNN Effect (Harvard, 1997), Terrorism Spectacle (Westview, 1994). Gregor Walter-Drop is the Managing Director of the Collaborative Research Center at the Freie Universitat Berlin.

Foreward ; Sina Odugbemi ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; Steven Livingston and Gregor Walter-Drop ; Part 1: Simulation, Consolidation, Opposition: ICT and Limited Statehood ; Chapter 2: Information Technology and the Limited States of the Arab Spring ; Muzammil M. Hussain and Philip N. Howard ; Chapter 3: The Kremlin's Cameras and Virtual Potemkin Villages: ICT and the Construction of Statehood ; Gregory Asmolov ; Chapter 4: E-government as a Means of Development in India ; J. P. Singh ; Chapter 5: ICT and Accountability in Areas of Limited Statehood ; Joseph Siegle ; Part 2: Substitution: ICT as a Tool for Non-State Governance ; Chapter 6: FrontlineSMS, Mobile-for-Development and the 'long tail' of governance ; Sharath Srinivasan ; Chapter 7: Natural Disasters and Alternative Modes of Governance: the Role of Social Networks and Crowdsourcing Platforms in Russia ; Gregory Asmolov ; Chapter 8: Mapping Kibera. Empowering Slum Residents by ICT ; Primoz Kova?i? and Jamie Lundine ; Chapter 9: Crisis Mapping in Areas of Limited Statehood ; Patrick Meier ; Chapter 10: From Crowdsourcing to Crowdseeding: The Cutting Edge of Empowerment? ; Peter van der Windt ; Chapter 11: Conclusions ; Steven Livingston and Gregor Walter-Drop ; Notes ; References ; Index