Search results for " e-participation"
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Women e-participation: glass ceiling decrease?
2012
This paper aims to review useful theoretical frame work able to encapsulate new frontiers of research on women political participation. In particular based on the feminist dichotomy of public and private sphere it investigates how Internet can enrol women in solving glass ceiling in political activism and participation considering its grassroots networked nature.
Democracy Squared: Designing On-Line Political Communities to Accommodate Conflicting Interests
2005
Published version of an article published in Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, 17 (2), 133-168. Also available from the publisher at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/sjis/vol17/iss2/5. On-line political communities, such as the Norwegian site Demokratitorget (Democracy Square), are often designed according to a set of un-reflected assumptions about the political interests of their potential members. In political science, democracy is not taken as given in this way, but can be represented by different models which characterize different relationships between politicians and the citizens they represent. This paper uses quantitative and qualitative content analysis to analyze the communicat…