TY - GEN
T1 - Analyzing the democratic potential of the internet
T2 - 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-44 2010
AU - Nam, Taewoo
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Analyzing the Pew Research Center's national survey in 2008, this paper assesses democratic potentials of the Internet for political participation. It focuses on U.S. citizens' four different political activities in both offline and online modes: casual political talk, contact with a government official, petition, and political contribution. The study answers two research inquiries: 1) How does the Internet influence the established patterns of political participation?; ory (in)equality? First, the Internet, by providing the existing participants with additional tools for participation, reinforces conventional participation rather than mobilizes new participation in politics. Second, the online patterns of the participation divide with respect to demographic characteristics imitate the traditional patterns of inequality and disproportionate representativeness in political participation.
AB - Analyzing the Pew Research Center's national survey in 2008, this paper assesses democratic potentials of the Internet for political participation. It focuses on U.S. citizens' four different political activities in both offline and online modes: casual political talk, contact with a government official, petition, and political contribution. The study answers two research inquiries: 1) How does the Internet influence the established patterns of political participation?; ory (in)equality? First, the Internet, by providing the existing participants with additional tools for participation, reinforces conventional participation rather than mobilizes new participation in politics. Second, the online patterns of the participation divide with respect to demographic characteristics imitate the traditional patterns of inequality and disproportionate representativeness in political participation.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/79952923899
U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2011.66
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2011.66
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79952923899
SN - 9780769542829
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
BT - Proceedings of the 44th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-44 2010
Y2 - 4 January 2011 through 7 January 2011
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