25 Years of Internet and Democracy
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This edited collection focuses on the first 25 years of experience with Internet and democracy. Involving scholars and perspectives from more than 20 countries across six continents it offers a comprehensive longitudinal and cross-national study on the impact of the Internet on democracy. The book starts with an overview of initial theoretical expectations about and democracy, focusing on digital opportunities. The Internet was in its early beginnings by many seen as a new information highway giving citizens access to an unprecedented amount of information and as a new agora for democratic…mehr

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This edited collection focuses on the first 25 years of experience with Internet and democracy. Involving scholars and perspectives from more than 20 countries across six continents it offers a comprehensive longitudinal and cross-national study on the impact of the Internet on democracy. The book starts with an overview of initial theoretical expectations about and democracy, focusing on digital opportunities. The Internet was in its early beginnings by many seen as a new information highway giving citizens access to an unprecedented amount of information and as a new agora for democratic debate, a weathercock for public opinion.  25 years later we have seen that such expectations were exaggerated. The Internet has not become the Shangri-La of democracy, enlightenment, and education. However, it has developed in other ways not expected and not explained in the original theories, changing  information hierarchies, political ontologies, and daily political habits of citizens in unforeseen ways.     
Autorenporträt
Jakob Linaa Jensen, Ph.D. is associate professor and director of Centre for Internet Studies at Department of Media and Journalism Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. His research is focused in the cross-field between online political participation and the algorithmic regimes of the platform economy.  50 international journal articles and several books, the most recent is The Medieval Internet, Emerald Publishing 2020. Eli Skogerbø, Ph.D. is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra, Australia. She is Co-Director of POLKOM - Centre for the study of Political Communication, a hub for political communication research in Norway. Her research focus is on political communication, and the constraints and opportunities that changing technologies and media structures represent for voice, participation and power. She has authored and edited about 100 articles, bookchapters and books.