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Will e-Governance and e-Democracy Lead to e-Empowerment? Gendering the Cyber State
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Abstract The onslaught of information and communications technologies (ICTs), the burgeoning popularity of the Internet, and the ideology behind the new information economy has coalesced into a force that is fundamentally reshaping the contours of the Canadian political landscape. This reorganization of the ... view more
The onslaught of information and communications technologies (ICTs), the burgeoning popularity of the Internet, and the ideology behind the new information economy has coalesced into a force that is fundamentally reshaping the contours of the Canadian political landscape. This reorganization of the state will profoundly impact women’s opportunities to participate in and alter conventional notions of citizenship. The establishment of electronic or e-government and the implications behind the development of the cyberstate promise to revolutionize Canadian governance and our traditional understandings of democracy. While there is the political possibility of shaping the emerging cyberstate as a vehicle of empowerment for women and marginalized others, there is also the prospect that Internet-facilitated government will exacerbate inequalities and impair women’s citizenship status. (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
Canada; woman; political participation; political activity; political influence; electronic democracy; electronic government; computer-mediated communication; Internet; digital media; equal opportunity; empowerment; digitalization
Classification
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Interactive, electronic Media
Document language
English
Publication Year
2007
Page/Pages
p. 1-28
Journal
Federal Governance, 4 (2007) 1
ISSN
1923-6158
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed