Van Der Merwe, Rean and Meehan, Anthony
(2011).
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23333-3_15 |
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Abstract
In the context of local civic governance, much of the interest in e-Participation concerns the extent to which online media might overcome the limitations of geography and scale, and so allow local interests to be better represented in institutionally driven participatory processes at national or regional level. In contrast, this study investigates the online deliberations of a local, geographically bounded community in a series of mailing lists that had originated from their own initiative and self-organisation. The interactions we observe challenges assumptions of democratic deliberation as mainly policy debate between citizens and government, or of lobbying administrative government. It also proposes a broader conception of the role of online deliberation in local governance, where instrumental decision-making and developing consensus is frequently over privileged in research.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2011 Springer |
| ISBN: | 3-642-23332-5, 978-3-642-23332-6 |
| Extra Information: | Third IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2011, Delft, The Netherlands, August 29 – September 1, 2011. Proceedings
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| Keywords: | e-democracy; e-participation; e-governance; neighbourhood democracy; online deliberation |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Mathematics, Computing and Technology > Computing |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Computing (CRC) |
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| Item ID: | 32214 |
| Depositing User: | Rean Van Der Merwe |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Feb 2012 11:04 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2012 07:45 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/32214 |
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