Political Participation in the Digital Age An Ethnographic Comparison Between Iceland and Germany

• Main Author: Tiemann-Kollipost, Julia (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2020
• Series: Digitale Gesellschaft 25
• Subjects: Political activism; Media studies; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; 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
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Summary

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.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (224 p.)

ISBN

9783839448885
9783837648881
9783732848881

Access

Open Access