Realising Democracy Online
Author: Jay G. Blumler
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781860301537
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Democracy Online
Author: Peter M. Shane
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-07-15
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1135934177
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Taking a multidisciplinary approach that they identify as a "cyber-realist research agenda," the contributors to this volume examine the prospects for electronic democracy in terms of its form and practice--while avoiding the pitfall of treating the benefits of electronic democracy as being self-evident. The debates question what electronic democracy needs to accomplish in order to revitalize democracy and what the current state of electronic democracy can teach us about the challenges and opportunities for implementing democratic technology initiatives.
Democracy Online
Author: Peter M. Shane
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780415948647
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Connecting Democracy
Author: Stephen Coleman
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 0262016567
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The global explosion of online activity is steadily transforming the relationship between government and the public. The first wave of change, e-government, enlisted the Internet to improve management and the delivery of services. More recently, e-democracy has aimed to enhance democracy itself using digital information and communication technology. One notable example of e-democratic practice is the government-sponsored (or government-authorized) online forum for public input on policymaking. This book investigates these online consultations and their effect on democratic practice in the United States and Europe, examining the potential of Internet-enabled policy forums to enrich democratic citizenship. The book first situates the online consultation phenomenon in a conceptual framework that takes into account the contemporary media environment and the flow of political communication; then offers a multifaceted look at the experience of online consultation participants in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France; and finally explores the legal architecture of U.S. and E. U. online consultation. As the contributors make clear, online consultations are not simply dialogues between citizens and government but constitute networked communications involving citizens, government, technicians, civil society organizations, and the media. The topics examined are especially relevant today, in light of the Obama administration's innovations in online citizen involvement.
Democracy in the Digital Age
Author: Anthony G. Wilhelm
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-06-01
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1135960763
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Democracy in the Digital Age is a fascinating philosophical exploration of how the emerging information and communication technologies are impacting political participation in the United States. Rather than being the antidote to democratic ills, the political conversations occurring online are neither inclusive nor deliberative, suggesting that new technologies, as currently designed and used, are as much threats to progress as they are vehicles of progress. Wilhelm finds that there is often an appearance of progress, but negligible advancement of the human condition. He discusses the four features of digitally-mediated political life (resources, inclusiveness, deliberation, and design) and demonstrates the need for a strong public policy.
A Private Sphere
Author: Zizi A. Papacharissi
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-04-23
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0745658997
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Online technologies excite the public imagination with narratives of democratization. The Internet is a political medium, borne of democracy, but is it democratizing? Late modern democracies are characterized by civic apathy, public skepticism, disillusionment with politics, and general disinterest in conventional political process. And yet, public interest in blogging, online news, net-based activism, collaborative news filtering, and online networking reveal an electorate that is not disinterested, but rather, fatigued with political conventions of the mainstream. This book examines how online digital media shape and are shaped by contemporary democracies, by addressing the following issues: How do online technologies remake how we function as citizens in contemporary democracies? What happens to our understanding of public and private as digitalized democracies converge technologies, spaces and practices? How do citizens of today understand and practice their civic responsibilities, and how do they compare to citizens of the past? How do discourses of globalization, commercialization and convergence inform audience/producer, citizen/consumer, personal/political, public/private roles individuals must take on? Are resulting political behaviors atomized or collective? Is there a public sphere anymore, and if not, what model of civic engagement expresses current tendencies and tensions best? Students and scholars of media studies, political science, and critical theory will find this to be a fresh engagement with some of the most important questions facing democracies today.
The Internet and Democratic Citizenship
Author: Stephen Coleman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-04-06
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0521817528
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Democratic Innovations
Author: Graham Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-07-02
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0521514770
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Electronic Democracy
Author: Graeme Browning
Publisher: Information Today
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Turning computer owners into online activists by explaining how to be powerful players in the political process, this book teaches how to organize e-mail campaigns within congressional districts; access a wealth of information that will impact politicians at the localm state and federal levels; monitor law-makers' coting records; and track campaign financing and contributions.
Defining Democracy in a Digital Age
Author: B. Lutz
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-11-14
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 1137496193
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The internet has created a new social base where governments are ever more critically examined and measuring public sentiment expressed on social media is crucial to gauging ongoing support for democracy. This book illustrates a methodology for doing so, and considers the impact of this new public sphere on the future of democracy.
