Selection and Control of Action

Proctor, Robert W.; Vu, Kim‐Phuong L.

doi:10.1002/9781118131350.ch4

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“…al., 2012). By using the term human actor, emphasis is placed on users and developers as autonomous agents possessing the capacity to control, regulate, and coordinate their behaviour, rather than them being on par and analysed as mere information processing automatons (Proctor & Vu, 2012).…”

Section: Understanding Political Participation and Trolling Online On...mentioning

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The Changing Face of Electronic Aggression

Virkar

2014

International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism

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Over the last two decades, public confidence and trust in Government has declined visibly in several liberal democracies, giving way instead to disillusionment with current political institutions, actors, and practices; rendering obsolete or inappropriate much of traditional democratic politics. Simultaneously, digital technologies have created huge opportunities for public bodies and agencies. In analysing the No. 10 Downing Street ePetitions Initiative based in the United Kingdom, this chapter engages with issues related to the innovative use of digital network technology by Government to involve citizens in policy processes and to buffer national security within existing democratic frameworks. The work examines whether the application of new digital platforms to participatory democracy in the Government 2.0 era leads eventually to radical transformations in government functioning and the body politic, or merely to modest, unspectacular political reform and to the emergence of technology-based obsessive-compulsive pathologies and trolling behaviours amongst individuals in society.

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Section: Understanding Political Participation and Trolling Online On...mentioning

confidence: 99%