This PhD-thesis is the result of my PhD-study 1993-97 at the Department of Technology and Social Sciences at the Technical University of Denmark. The study was supervised by Assistant Professor Lauge Baungaard Rasmussen and co-supervised by Professor Masao Hijikata from School of Social Sciences at Waseda University in Tokyo. I gratefully acknowledge the assistance and support of both of these great scholars. Also, I would like to thank the staff and students at the department for all the stimulating discussions. A special thank to Finn E Pettersson for all the help in finishing the thesis.
A whole host of people provided stimulation, inspirartion and motivation during the study. First of all, I would like to thank Karsten Lægdsmand and Jesper Nordahl from Amager Kulturpunkt and Klaus Ahm from Ørestadsselskabet I/S for "being my cases". Also, thanks goes to a wide range of researchers from the scientific communities I invaded - especially, I thank Sam Steffensen, Hans Mammen, Niels Albertsen, Bülent Diken, Peter van den Besselaar, Karamjit Gill, Peter Day, and Patsy Healey for inspiring discussions. I would furthermore like to thank my fellow net-actvist Michael Macpherson for encouraging me to put democracy into action.
John Gøtze