Review Article: Approaching digital democracy: Gary Hall, Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008, 301 pp. ISBN: 978 - 0 - 08166 - 4871 - 9, $19.95 (pbk) Matthew Hindman, The Myth of Digital Democracy. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009, 181 + xiii pp. ISBN: 978 - 0 - 691 - 13868 - 8, $22.95 (pbk) Damian Tambini, Danilo Leonardi and Chris Marsden (eds), Codifying Cyberspace: Communications Self-regulation in the Age of Internet Convergence. London and New York: Routledge, 2008, 323 + x pp. ISBN: 1 - 84472 - 144 - 2, £19.99 (pbk).