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.
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Digital Democracy
Issues of Theory and Practice
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Digital Democracy
Issues of Theory and Practice
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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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- PART I - INTRODUCTION AND HISTORY
- Chapter 1 - What is Digital Democracy?
- Chapter 2 - Computers as Communication: the Rise of Digital Democracy
- PART II - THEORY
- Chapter 3 - Models of Democracy and Concepts of Communication
- Chapter 4 - Digital Democracy and Political Systems
- Chapter 5 - Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere
- Chapter 6 - The Controversies of the Internet and the Revitalization of Local Political Life
- PART III - PRACTICE
- Chapter 7 - The White House Computer-mediated Communication (CMC) System and Political Interactivity
- Chapter 8 - Guiding Voters through the Net: the Democracy Network in a California Primary Election
- Chapter 9 - The Promise and Practice of Public Debate in Cyberspace
- Chapter 10 - Widening Information Gaps and Policies of Prevention
- Chapter 11 - Public Policies for Digital Democracy
- PART IV - SUMMARY
- Chapter 12 - Summary
- Index
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