Increasing attention is being paid to the political uses of the new communication technologies. Digital Democracy offers an invaluable in-depth explanation of what issues of theory and application are most important to the emergence and development of computer-mediated communication systems for political purposes. The book provides a wide-ranging critical examination of the concept of virtual democracy as discussed in theory and as implemented in practice and policy that has been hitherto unavailable. It addresses how the Internet, World Wide Web and computer-mediated political communication are affecting democracy and focuses on the various theoretical and practical issues involved in digital democracy. Using international examples Digital Democracy attempts to connect theoretical analysis to considerations of practice and policy. INDICE: PART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND HISTORY What Is Digital Democracy? - Kenneth L Hacker and Jan van DijkComputers as Communication - Everett M Rogers and Sheena Malhotra The Rise of Digital DemocracyPART TWO: THEORYModels of Democracy and Concepts of Communication - Jan van DijkDigital Democracy and Political Systems - Martin HaganStructural Transformations of the Public Sphere - John KeaneThe Controversies of the Internet and the Revitalization of Local Political Life - Sinikka SassiPART THREE: PRACTICEWhite House Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Political Interactivity - Kenneth L HackerGuiding Voters through the Net - Anita Elberse, Matthew Hale and William Dutton The Democracy Network in a California PrimaryThe Promise and Practice of Public Debate in Cyberspace - Nicholas Jankowski and Martine van SelmThe Widening Information Gap and Policies of Prevention - Jan van DijkPublic Policies for Digital Democracy - Michel Catinat and Thierry VedelPART FOUR: SUMMARYSummary - Jan van Dijk and Kenneth L Hacker
- ISBN: 978-0-7619-6218-2
- Editorial: SAGE Publications Ltd
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
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