Can the Internet strengthen democracy?
By: Stephen Coleman
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781509508365; 9781509508372
Subjects: Technological innovations; Democracy; Internet; Political aspects; Political participation; Internet in public administration; Communication in politics
Description: From its inception as a public communication network, the Internet was regarded by many people as a potential means of escaping from the stranglehold of top-down, stage-managed politics. If hundreds of millions of people could be the producers as well as receivers of political messages, could that invigorate democracy? If political elites fail to respond to such energy, where will it leave them? --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-142).
Table of contents: title: The great missed opportunity; title: Political hopes and fears; title: Democratic limbo; title: Populism or democracy?