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.
Price: $60.00
Pages: 224
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
27 February 2020
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837648881
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Julia Tiemann-Kollipost, born in 1986, works at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin. A cultural anthropologist, she completed her PhD at the University of Göttingen. Earlier, she has worked at the Göttingen Institute for Democratic Research. She specializes in the fields of political and digital anthropology, as well as the study of everyday culture and the culture of consumption.
Frontmatter 1
Table of Content 5
Acknowledgements 7
1 Introduction 11
2.1 Update Loading? - (Re)defining Political Participation 17
2.2 Internet and Politics 31
2.3 Conclusion 44
3 Doing Ethnography I: Constructing Research Fields 45
4.1 LiquidFriesland 53
4.2 Betri Reykjavík 60
5 Doing Ethnography II: Methods and Translating Them into Practice 65
6.1 Participant Observation 69
6.2 Interviews 71
6.3 Focus Groups 74
6.4 Conclusion 75
7 Doing Ethnography III: Making Sense of the Data 77
8.1 Political Participation - A Definition? 81
8.2 Information Practices through the Ages 83
8.3 Communication within Online Participation Tools: Software is Politics 97
8.4 Political Participation in the Digital Age 144
8.5 The Role of Geographical Proximity in (Online) Political Participation 190
8.6 Conclusion 195
9 Conclusion 197
10.1 Works Cited 201
10.2 Figures 221
