Political Participation in the Digital Age

Julia Tiemann-Kollipost

Julia Tiemann-Kollipost

Political Participation in the Digital Age

An Ethnographic Comparison Between Iceland and Germany

In: Digitale Gesellschaft, 25

Funded by: Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft, Graduiertenschule für Geisteswissenschaften Göttingen , transcript: Open Library 2020 (Politik) and Kollektion-PolWi-2020

transcript-Verlag | 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839448885

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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.

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Julia Tiemann-Kollipost, born in 1986, works at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin. A cultural anthropologist, she completed her PhD at the University of Göttingen. Earlier, she has worked at the Göttingen Institute for Democratic Research. She specializes in the fields of political and digital anthropology, as well as the study of everyday culture and the culture of consumption.

Frontmatter Open Access PDF PDF	1
Table of Content Open Access PDF PDF	5
Acknowledgements Open Access PDF PDF	7
1 Introduction Open Access PDF PDF	11
2 State of Research
2.1 Update Loading? – (Re)defining Political Participation Open Access PDF PDF	17
2.2 Internet and Politics Open Access PDF PDF	31
2.3 Conclusion Open Access PDF PDF	44
3 Doing Ethnography I: Constructing Research Fields Open Access PDF PDF	45
4 Research Fields
4.1 LiquidFriesland Open Access PDF PDF	53
4.2 Betri Reykjavík Open Access PDF PDF	60
5 Doing Ethnography II: Methods and Translating Them into Practice Open Access PDF PDF	65
6 Methodology
6.1 Participant Observation Open Access PDF PDF	69
6.2 Interviews Open Access PDF PDF	71
6.3 Focus Groups Open Access PDF PDF	74
6.4 Conclusion Open Access PDF PDF	75
7 Doing Ethnography III: Making Sense of the Data Open Access PDF PDF	77
8 Results and Discussion
8.1 Political Participation – A Definition? Open Access PDF PDF	81
8.2 Information Practices through the Ages Open Access PDF PDF	83
8.3 Communication within Online Participation Tools: Software is Politics Open Access PDF PDF	97
8.4 Political Participation in the Digital Age Open Access PDF PDF	144
8.5 The Role of Geographical Proximity in (Online) Political Participation Open Access PDF PDF	190
8.6 Conclusion Open Access PDF PDF	195
9 Conclusion Open Access PDF PDF	197
10 Appendix
10.1 Works Cited Open Access PDF PDF	201
10.2 Figures Open Access PDF PDF	221

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Political Participation in the Digital Age

An Ethnographic Comparison Between Iceland and Germany

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