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Record Nr.

UNISA996344225803316

Autore

Tiemann-Kollipost Julia

Titolo

Political Participation in the Digital Age : An Ethnographic Comparison Between Iceland and Germany / Julia Tiemann-Kollipost

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2020

ISBN

3-8394-4888-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

Digitale Gesellschaft ; 25

Classificazione

MD 6500

Disciplina

320.9491202854678

Soggetti

E-Democracy; E-Government; E-Governance; Digital Ethnography; Protest; Social Movements; Iceland; Germany; Reykjavík; Friesland; Liquid Democracy; Citizen Participation; Direct Democracy; Civil Society; Internet; Politics; Digital Media; Cultural Anthropology; Sociology of Media; Political Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  Table of Content    5  Acknowledgements    7  1 Introduction    11  2.1 Update Loading? - (Re)defining Political Participation    17  2.2 Internet and Politics    31  2.3 Conclusion    44  3 Doing Ethnography I: Constructing Research Fields    45  4.1 LiquidFriesland    53  4.2 Betri Reykjavík    60  5 Doing Ethnography II: Methods and Translating Them into Practice    65  6.1 Participant Observation    69  6.2 Interviews    71  6.3 Focus Groups    74  6.4 Conclusion    75  7 Doing Ethnography III: Making Sense of the Data    77  8.1 Political Participation - A Definition?    81  8.2 Information Practices through the Ages    83  8.3 Communication within Online Participation Tools: Software is Politics    97  8.4 Political Participation in the Digital Age    144  8.5 The Role of Geographical Proximity in (Online) Political Participation    190  8.6 Conclusion    195  9 Conclusion    197  10.1 Works Cited    201  10.2 Figures    221

Sommario/riassunto

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.