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

• Autore: Tiemann-Kollipost Julia
• Pubblicazione: Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2020
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.9491202854678
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto non controllato: 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
• Classificazione: MD 6500
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Political Participation in the Digital Age
• ISBN: 3-8394-4888-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996344225803316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Digitale Gesellschaft