Political Participation in the Digital Age :
Tiemann-Kollipost, Julia,
Political Participation in the Digital Age : An Ethnographic Comparison Between Iceland and Germany / Julia Tiemann-Kollipost. - Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2020] ©2020 - 1 online resource (224 p.) - Digitale Gesellschaft ; 25 .
Frontmatter -- Table of Content -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 State of Research -- 2.1 Update Loading? - (Re)defining Political Participation -- 2.2 Internet and Politics -- 2.3 Conclusion -- 3 Doing Ethnography I: Constructing Research Fields -- 4 Research Fields -- 4.1 LiquidFriesland -- 4.2 Betri Reykjavík -- 5 Doing Ethnography II: Methods and Translating Them into Practice -- 6 Methodology -- 6.1 Participant Observation -- 6.2 Interviews -- 6.3 Focus Groups -- 6.4 Conclusion -- 7 Doing Ethnography III: Making Sense of the Data -- 8 Results and Discussion -- 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 Appendix -- 10.1 Works Cited -- 10.2 Figures
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:
In English.
9783839448885
Political participation--Technological innovations--Germany.
Political participation--Technological innovations--Iceland.
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.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship.
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.
320.9491202854678
Political Participation in the Digital Age : An Ethnographic Comparison Between Iceland and Germany / Julia Tiemann-Kollipost. - Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2020] ©2020 - 1 online resource (224 p.) - Digitale Gesellschaft ; 25 .
Frontmatter -- Table of Content -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 State of Research -- 2.1 Update Loading? - (Re)defining Political Participation -- 2.2 Internet and Politics -- 2.3 Conclusion -- 3 Doing Ethnography I: Constructing Research Fields -- 4 Research Fields -- 4.1 LiquidFriesland -- 4.2 Betri Reykjavík -- 5 Doing Ethnography II: Methods and Translating Them into Practice -- 6 Methodology -- 6.1 Participant Observation -- 6.2 Interviews -- 6.3 Focus Groups -- 6.4 Conclusion -- 7 Doing Ethnography III: Making Sense of the Data -- 8 Results and Discussion -- 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 Appendix -- 10.1 Works Cited -- 10.2 Figures
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license:
In English.
9783839448885
Political participation--Technological innovations--Germany.
Political participation--Technological innovations--Iceland.
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.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship.
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.
320.9491202854678