Expanding the Public Sphere through Computer-Mediated Communication: Political Discussion about Abortion in a Usenet Newsgroup
by
Steven Michael Schneider
B.A., Political Communication (1981) George Washington University M.A., Communications (1988) University of Pennsylvania
Submitted to the Department of Political Science in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology June 1997