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The Return of the Omni-Competent Citizen?
In his book, Public Opinion, written in 1922, Walter Lippmann takes as his thesis that the ordinary citizen is incapable of making the decisions necessary in democracy due to his limited ability to perceive and understand the world outside of his immediate environment. He suggests that we need intelligence workers, experts whose interests transcend local [...]
Posted: June 7th, 2007 under citizen journalism, computational journalism, democracy.
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