I am just in the midst of finalizing a course syllabus on Concepts of Community I am co-teaching with Etienne Turpin (who formulated the central arc of this particular course) and I believe our material relates closely to some of your topics. Hope this may be useful. I also teach courses more specifically around democracy and media (eg, my recent edited text that includes essays by some members of this list: Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times MIT 2008<br>
<a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11464">http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11464</a>, and also btw two recent review out on Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies: <a href="http://rccs.usfca.edu/bookinfo.asp?BookID=439&ReviewID=635">http://rccs.usfca.edu/bookinfo.asp?BookID=439&ReviewID=635</a><br>
<br>but in terms of the strictly philosophical side, this outline may be more relevant. The focus is a bit more community and political theory than democracy per se, but as I have been reviewing many political theory syllabi I see vast overlap in studies of community and democracy. Interesting even to articulate how the latter might be addressed without consideration of questions of the common.<br>
<br>Megan Boler, Professor<br>Associate Chair<br>Theory and Policy Studies<br>Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto<br>252 Bloor Street West<br>Toronto, Ontario M5S 1V6<br><a href="http://www.meganboler.net">www.meganboler.net</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:09 AM, George Siemens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gsiemens@elearnspace.org">gsiemens@elearnspace.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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What books or texts would list members suggest as “must reads” on topics of democracy, equality, and personal liberty in relation to the state? I’m familiar with the usual crowd: Locke, Rousseau, Mill, Hamilton, Paine, Tocqueville, Schumpeter, etc. <br>
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