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Challenges of Online Participation: Digital Inequality in Party-Internal Processes
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Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2019 "Challenges of Digital Inequality - Digital Education, Digital Work, Digital Life"
Abstract Parties adopt online participation methods in the hope of engaging a wider group of participants. However, literature on the digital divide suggests that this is unlikely to happen, as online participa-tion remains dependent on the same factors as offline participation: income, class, education. Bas... mehr
Parties adopt online participation methods in the hope of engaging a wider group of participants. However, literature on the digital divide suggests that this is unlikely to happen, as online participa-tion remains dependent on the same factors as offline participation: income, class, education. Based on a mixed methods study of members of the Green Party Germany, this paper discusses the expected and actual effects of online participation tools on the participation of party members. Expectations are that these tools will benefit nearly everyone, but in practice, the goal to engage inactive members is only partially achieved: Younger members and those with lower educational attainments are mo-bilised, but women are not. These effect differ depending on the type of technology. I argue that this is an expression of the prevailing digital divide, which needs to consider not only a socio-demo-graphic divisions, but also the multifaceted effects of different technologies.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Bundesrepublik Deutschland; politische Aktivität; Digitale Spaltung; Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen; Mitgliedschaft; Mobilisierung; politische Kommunikation; Ungleichheit; Online-Medien; politische Partizipation
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
interaktive, elektronische Medien
Freie Schlagwörter
online participation; party-internal participation; digital inequality; reinforcement; Weizenbaum-Institut; Weizenbaum Institute
Titel Sammelwerk, Herausgeber- oder Konferenzband
Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2019 "Challenges of Digital Inequality - Digital Education, Digital Work, Digital Life"
Konferenz
2. Weizenbaum Conference. Berlin, 2019
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Erscheinungsort
Berlin
Seitenangabe
10 S.
Status
Erstveröffentlichung; begutachtet (peer reviewed)