Search results for "e-democracy"

The Genre System Lens on E-Democracy

2008

Published version of an article published in Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, 20 (2), 51-82. Also available from the publisher at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/sjis/vol20/iss2/3 E-Democracy aims at enhancing citizen involvement in societal communication and decision making. However, the very ideals of democracy vary while reports of e-democracy in use have often left them undiscussed. Moreover, theoretical works on the potential of information technology (IT) for democratization have often viewed IT as a “black box”, and assumed that technology should create an impact as such. Hence, there is a dearth of research on the interplay between models of e-democracy and actual IT artefacts …

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…

Marinin hallituksen ministereihin Twitterissä suunnattu vihapuhe

2022

Twitter on myös vihapuheenvälittäjä. Tämä tutkimus käyttää laajaa, käsin luokiteltua twiittiaineistoa Marinin hallituksen ministereihin kohdistuvan vihamielisen puheen tutkimisessa. Tutkimuksen tavoite oli selvittää, kuinka yleistä ministereihin kohdistuva vihapuhe on, ja miten vihapuhe jakautuu sukupuolen, iän ja puoluekannan mukaan. Tutkin myös vihapuheen lähettäjien seurattavia ja tykkäyksiä. Tulosten perusteella valtioneuvostoon kohdistuva vihapuhe on yleistä, koska keskimäärin noin joka 20. ministerille lähetetty viesti on vihamielinen. Salkkujakauma vaikuttaa oletettavasti vihapuheen jakaumaan eikä tuloksista sen vuoksi voida yleistää, onko vihapuhe suunnattu erityisesti naisiin tai m…

The Political Click: Political Participation through E-Petitions in Germany

2010

Electronic petitions can serve as an influential mechanism for political participation. We present a study on the dynamics in the German e-petition system which was introduced in late 2008. Drawing on a data set of signatures, we analyze four aspects: (a) the types of petitions found, (b) the temporal dynamics of petitions, (c) the types of users found, and (d) the intersection of different petitions' supporter populations. We present evidence that (a) the system is dominated by a very small number of high-volume petitions and (b) these high-volume petitions have a delayed boosting effect on the base activity in the petition system. We furthermore (c) present a typology of users, showing th…

E-Democracy and Public Online Budgeting

2014

If social media are to reinforce sustainability of political decisions their design has conceptually to take into account the implications of deliberative democracy, which stresses the active co-operation of virtually all citizens of a democracy for the purposes of participatory involvement. Essential to deliberative e-democracy is therefore a technologically supported comprehensive discourse about political subjects which is also called Deliberation. Theoretical implications of Deliberation are discussed from the angle of political science and social psychology. Finally, the practical implications of Deliberation rooted in social media are exemplified by an online citizen involvement for t…

The People’s Assembly: Testing the Collaborative (e)-Democracy

2020

This paper aims to critically analyse the Estonian People’s Assembly (EPA), a crowdsourcing initiative carried out from 2013 to 2014. During the project, citizens could participate in decision-making and make proposals for laws and policies on a dedicated web-platform. Additionally, some people were invited for a traditional off-line debate. In that way, the project combined virtual communication tools with traditional discussion to apply the principles of collaborative e-democracy, in which governmental stakeholders and non-governmental stakeholders (such as local communities) join in a deliberative debate. The purpose of this paper is to observe, both, gains and problems of this crowdsour…

Democrazia e consultazione on line

2007

Comunicazione e decisioni pubbliche, democrazia e nuove tecnologie: il dibattito sulla consultazione elettronica attraversa ed integra discipline e settori differenti nell’ambito della sociologia dei fenomeni politici. Questo libro, nell’ambito di una riflessione sulla democrazia deliberativa, esamina in modo critico una possibile risposta tecnologica al declino della partecipazione politica. Vengono, infatti, mostrati gli ostacoli tecnici, cognitivi e metodologici che emergono nella pratica della consultazione elettronica. Si definiscono standard minimi, possibili strumenti di pianificazione (metodologica e comunicativa), pro e contro delle principali tecniche di consultazione elettronica,…

Internet e le nuove forme della partecipazione politica

2002

Il voto digitale: tra assenteismo parlamentare e astensionismo popolare. Problemi e prospettive

2023

Lo scritto affronta il vasto tema del voto digitale facendo riferimento tanto alla partecipazione popolare quanto a quella parlamentare. Partendo da una comparazione delle esperienze degli altri ordinamenti, il lavoro mira a stimolare una riflessione circa la convenienza dell’introduzione del voto digitale nei procedimenti elettorali e in alcuni aspetti delle procedure parlamentari. Essendo da tempo discussa l’affidabilità di tali sistemi informatici, l’articolo intende, inoltre, soffermarsi sui più recenti sviluppi in tema di cyber-security e blockchain, cercando di illustrare come grazie a questi si potrebbero ottenere livelli di affidabilità e trasparenza idonei a mettere alla prova, sen…

Models of E-Democracy

2006

Pulished article in Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 17 (1), 818-840. Also available from the publisher: http://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol17/iss1/37/ Several theories of E-Democracy have been presented, and implementations of and experiments in E-Democracy emerged. However, existing literature on the subject appears rather non-comprehensive, lacking an integrated basis, for gathering knowledge in the future. After an analysis of theories of E-Democracy versus implementations reported in related literature, we address the need for a model generally absent from contemporary theoretical literature: the Partisan model of E-Democracy. We aim to simplify the current "jung…