Name
Abstract | ||
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E-Democracy aims at enhancing citizen involvement in societal communication and decision making. However, the very ideals of democ- racy vary while reports of e-democracy in use have often left them undis- cussed. Moreover, theoretical works on the potential of information tech- nology (IT) for democratization have often viewed IT as a "black box", and assumed that technology should create an impact as such. Hence, there is a dearth of research on the interplay between models of e-democracy and actual IT artefacts in use. We suggest and elaborate an analytical frame- work, which combines the genre system lens of organizational communica- tion and contemporary e-democracy models. The framework adheres to the ensemble view of IT artefacts. We illustrate use of the framework through a retrospective analysis of four e-democracy applications. The framework re- veals similarities and differences between particular e-democracy contexts and applications, which can now be more concretely discussed at the level of genre systems and their constituent genres. Such analytical dimensions as malleability, genre compatibility, and density of genre systems may give insight for further research and knowledge accumulation on e-democracy. |
Year | Venue | Keywords |
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2008 | Scandinavian J. Inf. Systems | genre,e-democracy,it artefacts.,genre systems |
Field | DocType | Volume |
Black box (phreaking),World Wide Web,Knowledge management,Democratization,Engineering,Epistemology,Malleability,E-democracy | Journal | 20 |
Issue | Citations | PageRank |
2 | 27 | 1.08 |
References | Authors | |
44 | 2 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tero Päivärinta | 1 | 328 | 27.00 |
| Øystein Sæbø | 2 | 413 | 31.52 |