Political Participation in the Digital Age : an Ethnographic Comparison Between Iceland and Germany /

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 p...

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Main Author:	Tiemann-Kollipost, Julia, 1986- (Author)
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2020]
Series:	Digitale Gesellschaft ; 25
Subjects:	Political science. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civics & Citizenship. Political science Citizen Participation. Civil Society. Cultural Anthropology. Digital Ethnography. Digital Media. Direct Democracy. E-Governance. E-Government. Friesland. Germany. Iceland. Internet. Liquid Democracy. Political Science. Politics. Protest. Reykjavík. Social Movements. Sociology of Media. Electronic books.
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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (224 pages)
ISBN:	9783839448885 3839448883