Political Participation in the Digital Age
An Ethnographic Comparison Between Iceland and Germany (Edition 1)
Author(s)
Tiemann-Kollipost, Julia
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Number
105889Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
Political Science; Political Process; Political AdvocacyDOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839448885ISBN
9783732848881Publisher
transcript VerlagPublisher website
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/Publication date and place
Bielefeld, 2020Grantor
Imprint
transcript VerlagClassification
Political activism / Political engagement