| Digital Democracy: Issues of Theory and Practice Contributor(s): Hacker, Kenneth L. (Editor), Van Dijk, Jan A. G. M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0761962174 ISBN-13: 9780761962175 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $220.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2001 Annotation: 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. It addresses how the Internet, and computer-mediated political communication are affecting democracy and focuses on the various theoretical and practical issues involved in digital democracy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Computers | Information Technology - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy |
| Dewey: 352.380 |
| LCCN: 00712981 |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6.82" W x 9" (1.09 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |
Contributor Bio(s): Van Dijk, Jan A. G. M.: - Jan A.G.M. van Dijk is an internationally recognized expert in the field of communication, his specific interest being new media studies. Van Dijk is the author of The Network Society (SAGE, 2012) and co-editor of Digital Democracy: Issues of Theory and Practice (SAGE, 2000). He is an advisor of the European Commission in the Information Society Forum. As a professor of Communication Science at Twente University, van Dijk teaches and develops the sociology of the information society, in particular the social-cultural, political, and organizational aspects. |