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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tiemann-Kollipost, Julia, 1986- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2020]
Colección:Digitale Gesellschaft ; 25
Temas:
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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Content
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2.1 Update Loading?
  • (Re)defining Political Participation
  • 2.2 Internet and Politics
  • 2.3 Conclusion
  • 3 Doing Ethnography I: Constructing Research Fields
  • 4.1 LiquidFriesland
  • 4.2 Betri Reykjavík
  • 5 Doing Ethnography II: Methods and Translating Them into Practice
  • 6.1 Participant Observation
  • 6.2 Interviews
  • 6.3 Focus Groups
  • 6.4 Conclusion
  • 7 Doing Ethnography III: Making Sense of the Data
  • 8.1 Political Participation
  • A Definition?
  • 8.2 Information Practices through the Ages
  • 8.3 Communication within Online Participation Tools: Software is Politics
  • 8.4 Political Participation in the Digital Age
  • 8.5 The Role of Geographical Proximity in (Online) Political Participation
  • 8.6 Conclusion
  • 9 Conclusion
  • 10.1 Works Cited
  • 10.2 Figures

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