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Making eParticipation policy - a European analysis: social and political trends in eParticipation: the public policy and the civil society perspectives
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Abstract The creative and disruptive characteristics of digital networks have profound consequences for the production of citizenship, which has always been technologically constructed, but now derives its significance from a tension between elite intentions and network flows. Our aim in this paper is to exp... view more
The creative and disruptive characteristics of digital networks have profound consequences for the production of citizenship, which has always been technologically constructed, but now derives its significance from a tension between elite intentions and network flows. Our aim in this paper is to explore this tension empirically by interrogating the process of policy-making with regard to eParticipation in six European countries.... view less
Keywords
civil society; electronic democracy; network; Internet; computer-mediated communication; network society; citizens' participation; deliberation; new media; Europe; international comparison; political participation; participation
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Interactive, electronic Media
Method
descriptive study; empirical
Free Keywords
eDemocracy; e-deliberation; digital public sphere; online public sphere; policy making and new media; eParticipation; online collective action; European democracies; Europe; innovative policy making; digital democracy
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
Publisher
DEMO-Net Consortium
Page/Pages
57 p.
Series
DEMO-net Booklet Series, 14.2 & 14.4
Status
Preprint; not reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works