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The Internet and Democracy in Global Perspective - Voters, Candidates, Parties, and Social Movements (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
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The Internet and Democracy in Global Perspective - Voters, Candidates, Parties, and Social Movements (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Series: Studies in Public Choice, 31
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This volume provides an important update to our current
understanding of politics and the internet in a variety of new
contexts, both geographically and institutionally. The subject of
e-democracy has morphed over the years from speculative and
optimistic accounts of a future heightened direct citizen
involvement in political decision-making and an increasingly
withered state apparatus, to more prosaic investigations of party
and governmental website content and micro level analyses of
voters' online activities. Rather than levelling the communications
and participation playing field, most studies concluded that
existing patterns of bias and power distribution were being
repeated online, with the one exception of a genuine change in the
potential for protest and e-activism. Across all of these accounts,
the question remains whether the internet is a levelling
communication tool that elevates the profile of marginalised
players in the political system, or whether it is a medium that
simply reinforces existing power and participatory biases. While
employing case studies from various global perspectives, this book
investigates the role of digital media and competitive advantage,
campaigns and the effect of social media, online communication as
way of fomenting nonviolent revolutions and the undeniable and
important role of the internet on democracy around the world.
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