Title :
Weblogs, a Promising New Form for E-democracy?
Author :
Broß, Justus F M
Author_Institution :
Hasso-Plattner Inst., Univ. of Potsdam, Potsdam
Abstract :
Over the last 15 years, there has been a gradually increasing awareness of the need to consider innovative applications of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) for participation that enables a wider audience to actively contribute to democratic decision-making. There is reason enough to believe that ICT can indeed change politics. Especially the Weblog technology seems to have that potential in certain countries, as the following research proposal suggests. Why not in Germany?
Keywords :
Web sites; government data processing; politics; Weblog technology; democratic decision-making; e-democracy; information-and-communications technology; politics; Communications technology; Decision making; Government; Instruments; Intelligent agent; Internet; Peace technology; Proposals; TV; Technological innovation; Political Blogging; Social Web; Weblogs; e-Democracy; e-Participation;
Conference_Titel :
Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2008. WI-IAT '08. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3496-1
DOI :
10.1109/WIIAT.2008.268
