TY - BOOK ID - 96669559 TI - Political Participation in the Digital Age : An Ethnographic Comparison Between Iceland and Germany PY - 2020 SN - 3732848884 PB - Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, DB - UniCat KW - Political Science / Political Process / Political Advocacy KW - Political science KW - Administration KW - Civil government KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Government KW - Political theory KW - Political thought KW - Politics KW - Science, Political KW - Social sciences KW - State, The UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:96669559 AB - This book explores the potential of the Internet for enabling new and flexible political participation modes. It meticulously illustrates how the Internet is responsible for citizens' participation practices from being general, high-threshold, temporally constricted, and dependent on physical presence to being topic-centered, low-threshold, temporally discontinuous, and independent from physical presence. With its ethnographic focus on Icelandic and German online participation tools Betri Reykjavík and LiquidFriesland, the book offers plentiful advice for citizens, programmers, politicians, and administrations alike on how to get the most out of online participation formats. ER -