Academic conference paper that looks at how technology has been understood to bring about a rebirth of the public sphere and the problems of such an approach. Paper offers a case study of an anonymous NGO who adopt a more grass-roots approach to civic regeneration that uses media technology. Recommendations for future work are approaches should be holistic, recognizing the need to take on all stages of technology dissemination and not just the cheap technological bits and that approaches should be socially led.

1. Media technology and the transformation of the public sphere: a media / social ecology perspective. Dr Marcus Leaning University of Winchester Paper presented at: Making Democracy Work In The Digital Age Conference, Institute of International relations and political Science, University of Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania 5th November 2009