Abstract
This essay summarizes a case study of the formation of two specific information technology-based publics: Time Warner's advanced interactive cable system and Internet web sites and the Capital Region Information Service of New York (CRISNY), a community freenet meant to serve the Albany metropolitan area. By using the public as a lens to analyze the social networks that constitute specific systems integral to the shaping of everyday life and attendant informal and formal political institutions, critical choices and alternatives can be identified by framing questions of communication in terms of political culture. Drawing upon approaches from science and technology studies, cultural studies, and communication studies, this project is a comparative analysis of publics situated in and emergent from advanced interactive computer-communication technologies.
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