8.3 Communication within Online Participation Tools: Software is Politics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Content 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. 1 Introduction 11
5. 2 State of Research
6. 2.1 Update Loading? – (Re)defining Political Participation 17
7. 2.2 Internet and Politics 31
8. 2.3 Conclusion 44
9. 3 Doing Ethnography I: Constructing Research Fields 45
10. 4 Research Fields
11. 4.1 LiquidFriesland 53
12. 4.2 Betri Reykjavík 60
13. 5 Doing Ethnography II: Methods and Translating Them into Practice 65
14. 6 Methodology
15. 6.1 Participant Observation 69
16. 6.2 Interviews 71
17. 6.3 Focus Groups 74
18. 6.4 Conclusion 75
19. 7 Doing Ethnography III: Making Sense of the Data 77
20. 8 Results and Discussion
21. 8.1 Political Participation – A Definition? 81
22. 8.2 Information Practices through the Ages 83
23. 8.3 Communication within Online Participation Tools: Software is Politics 97
24. 8.4 Political Participation in the Digital Age 144
25. 8.5 The Role of Geographical Proximity in (Online) Political Participation 190
26. 8.6 Conclusion 195
27. 9 Conclusion 197
28. 10 Appendix
29. 10.1 Works Cited 201
30. 10.2 Figures 221