Digital democracy : issues of theory and practice / edited by Kenneth L. Hacker & Jan van Dijk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dijk, Jan van, 1952-

Hacker, Kenneth L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet in public administration.

Information technology--Political aspects.

Information technology.

Democracy.

Political participation--Computer network resources.

Political participation.

Democracy--Technological innovations.

Local Subjects:

Democracy--Technological innovations.

Information technology--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

viii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2000.

Summary:

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 inter

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0761962174

0761962182

OCLC:

43969965