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

• Main Author: Tiemann-Kollipost, Julia
• Format: Book
• Language: unknown
• Published: transcript Verlag 2021
• Subjects: Publizistische Medien; Journalismus,Verlagswesen; Politikwissenschaft; News media; journalism; publishing; Political science; Cultural Anthropology; Digital Ethnography; E-Governance; Liquid Democracy; Friesland; Reykjavík; Sociology of Media; interaktive; elektronische Medien; politische Willensbildung; politische Soziologie; politische Kultur; Interactive; electronic Media; Political Process; Elections; Political Sociology; Political Culture; politische Partizipation; Bürgerbeteiligung; Digitale Medien; elektronische Demokratie; direkte Demokratie; Electronic Government; Internet; soziale Bewegung; Protest; Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Island; Kulturanthropologie; political participation; citizens' participation; digital media; electronic democracy; direct democracy; social movement; Federal Republic of Germany; Iceland
• Online Access: http://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4888-1; https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/72532; http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-72532-8; https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839448885

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.