Darin Barney believes that while the nuts and bolts of technological progress – computers, cellphones, internet access wired and wireless – become accessible to more and more people, the promise of increased civic engagement has eluded us.

He says there’s a lot more to technology, and to democracy, than wires and buttons, and it has a much deeper affect on our lives than simply being tools we can use well or badly.

Darin Barney is a professor of Communication Studies at McGill University where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Technology and Citizenship.

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