Political Participation in the Digital Age : an ethnographic comparison between Iceland and Germany.

Political Participation in the Digital Age : an ethnographic comparison between Iceland and Germany.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Tiemann-Kollipost, Julia.
Imprint:	Transcript Verlag, 2020.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Online access: De Gruyter De Gruyter Open Books. Online access: OAPEN Open Research Library (ORL)
Subject:	Political participation -- Technological innovations -- Iceland. Political participation -- Technological innovations -- Germany. Political participation -- Technological innovations. Germany. Iceland. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13346459

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ISBN:	9783837648881 3837648885 9783839448885 3839448883 9783732848881 3732848884
Notes:	Open Access
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.

Table of Contents:

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 Reykjavik
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