The relationship between the practice of democracy and the use of new information technologies is dependent upon the technologies of communication and information, rules regarding the use of those technologies, and the na-ture of the entity making rules regarding those technolo-gies. Since today developments in all three of these areas are turbulent, this article looks to social theory that deals with turbulence and chaos a s a way of understanding the democratic potential'in the qualitatively different network society. The streams of literature drawn upon include second-order cybernetics and chaos theory, organiza-tional sociology, and the literature on the state. The con-cept of the autopoietic state Is developed a s a basis for dete...
The aim of the article is the identification and analysis of the transformations in the political sp...
Internet and new technologies have reconfigure the relationship between the state and civil society,...
In this essay I will investigate democracy in relation to the Internet. I will approach this goal fr...
This article examines the role of the new media and social networks as a factor in the development ...
In the last two decades, the internet has become a site for political power to be gained, lost, and ...
he dramatic and continuing expansion of computer technology in the past decade has expanded public a...
Many scholars have hailed the democratic potential of the internet. For some it empowers individuals...
This article gives a theoretical overview of the Information Society and Digital Democracy, its esse...
There is a widely held view that information and communications technology (ICT) has the potential t...
Abstract: Computer systems, like other technologies, are socio-technical systems; they are networks ...
This article explores the ways in which actor‐network theory (ANT) invites an alternative account of...
Employing the deductive method, it analyzes the effects of the Internet, combined with the globaliza...
Master's thesis at the Department of Political Science, University of CopenhagenThe thesis analyses ...
In recent years the world has experienced an unprecedented rise of social movements in both democrat...
From Occupy, to the Indignados and the Arab Spring, the uprisings that marked the last decade ignite...
The aim of the article is the identification and analysis of the transformations in the political sp...
Internet and new technologies have reconfigure the relationship between the state and civil society,...
In this essay I will investigate democracy in relation to the Internet. I will approach this goal fr...
This article examines the role of the new media and social networks as a factor in the development ...
In the last two decades, the internet has become a site for political power to be gained, lost, and ...
he dramatic and continuing expansion of computer technology in the past decade has expanded public a...
Many scholars have hailed the democratic potential of the internet. For some it empowers individuals...
This article gives a theoretical overview of the Information Society and Digital Democracy, its esse...
There is a widely held view that information and communications technology (ICT) has the potential t...
Abstract: Computer systems, like other technologies, are socio-technical systems; they are networks ...
This article explores the ways in which actor‐network theory (ANT) invites an alternative account of...
Employing the deductive method, it analyzes the effects of the Internet, combined with the globaliza...
Master's thesis at the Department of Political Science, University of CopenhagenThe thesis analyses ...
In recent years the world has experienced an unprecedented rise of social movements in both democrat...
From Occupy, to the Indignados and the Arab Spring, the uprisings that marked the last decade ignite...
The aim of the article is the identification and analysis of the transformations in the political sp...
Internet and new technologies have reconfigure the relationship between the state and civil society,...
In this essay I will investigate democracy in relation to the Internet. I will approach this goal fr...
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