Immigration, the internet, and spaces of politics

Online design for bilingual civil society: a Welsh perspective

“…They also fail to report in a satisfactory way the outcome of the campaign. Similar observations have been made with regard to other online campaigns (Staeheli et al, 2002(Staeheli et al, : 1004. Where a campaign site has a limited lifetime the site can still serve as a useful archive of the campaign and a resource for other campaigners.…”

“…It is not clear why the non-professional sites in this survey appear to be more open to the potential of including community features in their sites, though similar patterns are reported by Staeheli et al (2002Staeheli et al ( : 1003. One possibility is that those organisations who can afford professional developers are the more mainstream organisations who wish to be more in control of the information that appears to be associated with them.…”

“…Ideally, a civil society web site will offer the user the opportunity to participate in civil society, whether in an online environment or in the real world. However, Staeheli et al (2002Staeheli et al ( : 1009 observe that the many of the new political 'spaces' created on the Internet provide information rather than opportunities for debate and engagement.…”

Forest sustainability indicator systems as procedural policy tools in global environmental governance

“…Policy formulation models generally assume that groups compete for pre-existing political space, which is a social locus of policy making (Staeheli et al, 2002) and the distribution of power that is shaped by, and shapes, this activity. This was justified when political and territorial spaces coincided.…”

Creating and inhabiting virtual places: Indian immigrants in cyberspace

“…Yet as a wide range of current analysts suggest, technologies are ambivalent; their incorporation within social processes of economic exchange, and political contestation, along with community formation and identity construction does not take a predictable course but varies from group to group and from place to place (Dodge & Kitchin, 2005;Staeheli et al, 2002;Crang et al, 1999;Castells, 1999;Graham & Marvin, 1996). Beginning in the late 1980s and acquiring substantial support after the 1990s, an idea has developed in social sciences that every technology 'acquires its distinctiveness from its embeddedness in a life-style' (Nandy, 1987, p. 93) Á an observation as applicable to traditional technology as to the Internet.…”