TY - BOOK AU - Tiemann-Kollipost,Julia TI - Political Participation in the Digital Age: An Ethnographic Comparison Between Iceland and Germany T2 - Digitale Gesellschaft SN - 9783732848881 PB - transcript Verlag KW - Political Science / Political Process / Political Advocacy KW - bisacsh KW - Political science KW - Electronic books N1 - Access copy available to the general public N2 - This book explores the potential of the Internet for enabling new and flexible political participation modes. It meticulously illustrates how the Internet is responsible for citizens' participation practices from being general, high-threshold, temporally constricted, and dependent on physical presence to being topic-centered, low-threshold, temporally discontinuous, and independent from physical presence. With its ethnographic focus on Icelandic and German online participation tools Betri Reykjavík and LiquidFriesland, the book offers plentiful advice for citizens, programmers, politicians, and administrations alike on how to get the most out of online participation formats UR - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/833c46b9-98e9-4091-9409-bf6a577e9d3c ER -