NOTES TO PAGES 15–17ide ́es,’’ inspired by the work of Pierre Rosanvallon, see the dossier inLe Monde, May 20, 2006, and
the volumeLa Nouvelle Critique sociale(Paris: Seuil andLe Monde, 2006). See also David Lepoutre,
Coeur de banlieue: Codes, rites et langages(Paris: Odile Jacob, 2001), and Loı ̈c Wacquant,Parias
Urbains: Ghetto, banlieus, e ́tat(Paris: La De ́couverte: 2006), and idem, ‘‘Burn Baby Burn, French
Style? Roots of the Riots in the French City,’’ an interview to be found on http://sociology.berkeley.-
edu/faculty/wacquant/.
- As I stated earlier, polls find little support for radical Islam: see ‘‘Muslims and Europe:
Surprisingly Positive. Pew Finds Changes in Attitudes,’’ inThe International Herald Tribune, July 7,
- Roy, ‘‘Get French or Die Trying.’’
- See Jean-Marc Manach, ‘‘E ́chos de la guerre sur la blogosphe`re,’’ inLe Monde, July 29,
- For Ramzi’s blog, see http://ramziblahblah.blogspot.com, and Tom Zelter, Jr., ‘‘Anne Frank
2006: Web-savvy Youths Record Suffering in Mideast,’’ inThe International Herald Tribune, July
25, 2006. For the blog and video of Galya Daube, a fifteen-year-old inhabitant of Haifa, see
http://www.snipurl.com/Galya)..) - See Thomas Crampton, ‘‘France’s Mysterious Embrace of Blogs,’’ inThe International
Herald Tribune, July 28, 2006. The article reflects on the intensity of blogging in France, where,
interestingly, a far greater percentage (indeed, a majority) of Internet users visit blogs, ‘‘the personal
and public journals of the Internet age.’’ See also the survey of new media inThe Economist, April
22, 2006, which details in what ways the ‘‘era of mass media is giving way to one of personal and
participatory media,’’ notably blogs, including photo and video blogs (or ‘‘vlogs’’). - See, for a report on the ‘‘One Laptop per Child’’ (OLPC) project, E ́ric Leser, ‘‘A` 100
dollars, l’ordinateur des pauvres,’’ inLe Monde 2, June 17, 2006, and Nicholas Negroponte, ‘‘One
Laptop per Child,’’ inThe World in 2006,The Economist, 2006. - SeeThe Economist, July 29, 2006, which leaves no doubt about the answer to this question:
‘‘Mobile phones are cheaper, simpler and more reliable than PC’s, and market forces—in particular,
the combination of pre-paid billing plans and microcredit schemes—are already putting them into
the hands of even the world’s poorest people. Initiatives to spread PC’s in the developing world, in
contrast, rely on top-down funding from governments or aid agencies, rather than bottom-up
adoption by consumers.... There is no question that the PC has democratized computing and
unleashed innovation: but it is the mobile phone that now seems most likely to carry the dream of
the ‘personal computer’ to its conclusion.’’ For the history of the personal computer, including its
links to countercultural dreams of utopian social engineering in the sixties, see Thierry Bardini,
Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing(Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2000); the topic has recently also been taken up by Fred Turner, inFrom
Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, The Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital
Utopianism(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006). - Marjorie Garber and Rebecca L. Walkowitz, eds.,One Nation under God: Religion and
American Culture(New York: Routledge, 1999). - See Timothy Garton Ash, ‘‘New World Disorder,’’ inThe Guardian Weekly, July 28–August
3, 2006. - Mark Leonard, ‘‘The Geopolitics of 2026,’’ inThe World in 2006, The Economist, 2006.
Leonard also sees a limited future role for what he—in a somewhat unhelpful expression—calls a
‘‘Faith Zone,’’ that is to say, a consortium of Muslim countries, tied into the global economic
market but distinguished from the supposedly secular (and expanding) ‘‘Eurosphere.’’
51.Trouw, May 15, 2006. For the report, see Jos de Haan and Christian van ’t Hof, eds.,
Jaarboek ICT en samenleving: De digitale generatie, published under the auspices of the Sociaal en
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