Digital Democracy

Jan A.G.M. van Dijk (1952) is emeritus professor of communication science and sociology of the information society and still working at the University of Twente, the Netherlands.His main domains of research are the social aspects of the digital media, digital democracy and the digital divide. His best known English books are The Network Society (Four Editions, Sage Publications), Digital Democracy (2000, Sage Publications), The Deepening Divide (2005, Sage Publications), Digital Skills (2014, Palgrave Macmillan), Internet and Democracy (2018, Routledge) and The Digital Divide (2020, Polity Press). Since the year 2020 he is working on an overall work called Power & Technology, combining theories of social and natural power explaining the use of technology in human history. During his long career he was an advisory of many governments and departments as well as the European Commission.

• PART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND HISTORYWhat Is Digital Democracy? - Kenneth L Hacker and Jan van DijkComputers as Communication - Everett M Rogers and Sheena MalhotraThe Rise of Digital DemocracyPART TWO: THEORYModels of Democracy and Concepts of Communication - Jan van DijkDigital Democracy and Political Systems - Martin HaganStructural Transformations of the Public Sphere - John KeaneThe Controversies of the Internet and the Revitalization of Local Political Life - Sinikka SassiPART THREE: PRACTICEWhite House Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Political Interactivity - Kenneth L HackerGuiding Voters through the Net - Anita Elberse, Matthew Hale and William DuttonThe Democracy Network in a California PrimaryThe Promise and Practice of Public Debate in Cyberspace - Nicholas Jankowski and Martine van SelmThe Widening Information Gap and Policies of Prevention - Jan van DijkPublic Policies for Digital Democracy - Michel Catinat and Thierry VedelPART FOUR: SUMMARYSummary - Jan van Dijk and Kenneth L Hacker

`Hacker and van Dijk present an insightful collection exploring the nature of digital democracy.... This book does much to demystify the overused terminology associated with digital democracy, and manages to aviod the hyperbole and utopian tendencies often evident within existing analysis of "cyberpolitics".... highly recommended′ - Political Theory