Lecturer in Media Studies,
School of English and Media, Massey University,
Wellington, New Zealand

L.J.Dahlberg@xtra.co.nz

Research Interests:
public sphere and radical democratic theories,
media and democracy,
internet and political culture,
critical theory.


PUBLICATIONS:

Journal Editorship

2002-ff Co-Editor of New Zealand Sociology, Journal of the
Sociological Association of New Zealand.

Edited Books

forthcoming (2007) Lead Editor (with Eugenia Siapera).
Radical Democracy and The Internet. Palgrave.

Edited Journal Special Issues

2001 Co-Editor, Cultural Studies in Aotearoa/New Zealand,
Special Issue of New Zealand Sociology, 16(2).

Refereed Journal Articles

forthcomig ‘The Internet, Deliberative Democracy, and
Power: Radicalizing the Public Sphere’, Media and Cultural
Politics.

forthcoming ‘Rethinking the Fragmentation of the Cyber-
Public: From Consensus to Contestation’, New Media and
Society.

2005 ‘The Habermasian Public Sphere: Taking Difference
Seriously?’, Theory and Society 34 (2):111-136.

2005 ‘The Corporate Colonization of Online Attention and
the Marginalization of Critical Communication?’ Journal of
Communication Inquiry 29 (2):1-21.

2005 ‘The Internet as Public Sphere or Culture Industry?
From Pessimism to Hope and Back.’ Media and Cultural
Politics 1 (1): 93-96.

2005 ‘The Corporate Takeover of the Online Public Sphere?
A critical examination, with reference to “the New Zealand
case”’, Pacific Journalism Review 11 (1):22-41.

2004 ‘Cyber-Publics and the Corporate Control of Online
Communication’, Javnost—The Public 11 (3):77-92.

2004 ‘The Habermasian Public Sphere: A Specification of
the Idealized Conditions of Democratic Communication’,
Studies in Social and Political Thought 10: 2-18.

2004 ‘Internet Research Tracings: Towards Non-Reductionist
Methodology’, Journal of Computer-Mediated
Communications 9 (3):
http://www.ascusc.org./jcmc/vol9/issue3/dahlberg.html

2004 ‘Net-Public Sphere Research: Beyond the “First Phase,”’
Javnost—The Public11 (1):5-22.

2002 ‘Democratic Visions, Commercial Realities? The
Corporate Domination of Cyberspace and the Prospects for
Online Deliberation’, AntePodium April,
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/atp/articles/Dahlberg_0204.html

2001 ‘The Internet and Democratic Discourse: Exploring the
Prospects of Online Deliberative Forums extending the
Public Sphere’, Information, Communication & Society
4(4):615-633.

2001 ‘The Habermasian Public Sphere Encounters Cyber-
reality’, Javnost—The Public 8 (3):83-96.

2001 ‘Democracy via Cyberspace: Examining the Rhetorics
and Practices of Three Prominent Camps’, New Media &
Society 3 (2):187-207.

2001 ‘Computer-Mediated Communication and the Public
Sphere: A Critical Analysis’, Journal of Computer-Mediated
Communications 7 (1):
http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol7/issue1/dahlberg.html

2001 ‘Extending the Public Sphere through Cyberspace: The
Case of Minnesota E-Democracy.’ FirstMonday 6 (3):
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue6_3/dahlberg/index.html
(also published on CD ROM by the WiderNet Project for
distribution to African Universities).

1998 ‘Cyberspace and the Public Sphere: Exploring the
Democratic Potential of the Net’, Convergence: The Journal of
Research into New Media Technologies 4 (1):70-84.

1996 ‘Cyberspace as a Virtual Public Sphere?’ Sites 33:45-67.

Book Chapters

forthcoming, 2007. ‘‘The Internet, Deliberative Democracy,
and Power: Radicalizing the Public Sphere’,, In Dahlberg, L
and Siapera, E (Eds.), The Internet and Radical Democracy:
Exploring Theory and Practice. Palgrave.

forthcoming, 2007. ‘Introduction’, (with Eugenia Siapera) In
Dahlberg, L and Siapera, E (Eds.), The Internet and Radical
Democracy: Exploring Theory and Practice. Palgrave.

Essays In Refereed Journals

2002 ‘Review Essay of Barney’s Prometheus Wired: The hope
for democracy in the age of network technology’, New
Political Science: A Journal of Politics & Culture 24 (1):
151-157.

2001 ‘Introduction’ to ‘Cultural Studies in Aotearoa/New
Zealand’, New Zealand Sociology 16 (2):1-6. (with Chamsy El-Ojeili).

2000 ‘Democratic Participation through the Internet: A Brief
Survey’, M/C Reviews: Online Journal of Media and Culture
12 (April):
http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=49

Interviews in Refereed Journals

2002 ‘Sustaining Sociology: An Interview with Gregor
McLennan’, New Zealand Sociology 17 (2): 322-337.
(with Chamsy el-Ojeili)

2001 ‘Genealogy as Cultural Studies: An interview with
Mitchell Dean’, New Zealand Sociology 16 (2):10-25.
(with Chamsy el-Ojeili)

Book Reviews in Academic Journals

2004 Bauman, Z. Society Under Siege, in New Zealand
Sociology 19 (1): 172-176.

2003 Bauman, Z and Tester, K. Conversations with Zygmunt
Bauman, in New Zealand Sociology 18 (2): 272-274.

2001 Slevin, J. The Internet and Society, in Convergence:
The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
7 (1): 117-119.

2000 Barney, B. Prometheus Wired, in New Zealand Sociology
15(2): 368-372.

2000 Jordan, T. Cyberpower, in Convergence: The Journal
of Research into New Media Technologies 6 (2): 123-125.

1997 Shields, R. (ed), Cultures of Internet, in Sites 34: 97-101.

1996 Peters, M., et al. (eds), Critical Theory, Poststructuralism
and the Social Context, in New Zealand Sociology 11 (2): 339-346.