great page that's a course syllabus for a class at The Fletcher School. Many links to articles and videos. Could also be somewhat of a model for our project...

paper from the Brookings Insitution: " Can new media actually boost democratic participation and change politics in a lasting way? Or is such optimism as inflated as internet stocks during the dot com mania at the beginning of this millennium?"

why censoring Twitter is difficult

censoring sites that are "against their values"