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9780761962175

Digital Democracy : Issues of Theory and Practice

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  • ISBN13:

    9780761962175

  • ISBN10:

    0761962174

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-08-16
  • Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

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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.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
vii
Acknowledgements ix
PART I INTRODUCTION AND HISTORY 1(29)
What is Digital Democracy?
1(9)
Kenneth L. Hacker
Jan van Dijk
Computers as Communication: the Rise of Digital Democracy
10(20)
Everett M. Rogers
Sheena Malhotra
PART II THEORY 30(75)
Models of Democracy and Concepts of Communication
30(24)
Jan van Dijk
Digital Democracy and Political Systems
54(16)
Martin Hagen
Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere
70(20)
John Keane
The Controversies of the Internet and the Revitalization of Local Political Life
90(15)
Sinikka Sassi
PART III PRACTICE 105(104)
The White House Computer-mediated Communication (CMC) System and Political Interactivity
105(25)
Kenneth L. Hacker
Guiding Voters through the Net: the Democracy Network in a California Primary Election
130(19)
Anita Elberse
Matthew L. Hale
William H. Dutton
The Promise and Practice of Public Debate in Cyberspace
149(17)
Nicholas Jankowski
Martine van Selm
Widening Information Gaps and Policies of Prevention
166(18)
Jan van Dijk
Public Policies for Digital Democracy
184(25)
Michel Catinat
Thierry Vedel
PART IV SUMMARY 209(16)
Summary
209(16)
Jan van Dijk
Kenneth L. Hacker
Index 225

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