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Political Participation in the Digital Age: An Ethnographic Comparison Between Iceland and Germany
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Abstract This book explores the potential of the Internet for enabling new and flexible political participation modes. It meticulously illustrates how the Internet is responsible for citizens' participation practices from being general, high-threshold, temporally constricted, and dependent on physical presen... view more
This book explores the potential of the Internet for enabling new and flexible political participation modes. It meticulously illustrates how the Internet is responsible for citizens' participation practices from being general, high-threshold, temporally constricted, and dependent on physical presence to being topic-centered, low-threshold, temporally discontinuous, and independent from physical presence. With its ethnographic focus on Icelandic and German online participation tools Betri Reykjavík and LiquidFriesland, the book offers plentiful advice for citizens, programmers, politicians, and administrations alike on how to get the most out of online participation formats.... view less
Keywords
political participation; citizens' participation; digital media; electronic democracy; direct democracy; electronic government; Internet; social movement; protest; Federal Republic of Germany; Iceland; cultural anthropology
Classification
Interactive, electronic Media
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
Cultural Anthropology; Digital Ethnography; E-Governance; Liquid Democracy; Friesland; Reykjavík; Sociology of Media
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
221 p.
Series
Digitale Gesellschaft, 25
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839448885
ISBN
978-3-8394-4888-5
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0