“…Other scholars in political communication studied Internet campaigning and the use of the Internet by political parties (Römmele 2001(Römmele , 2003. In the following year, these scholars additionally concentrated on the role of the new ICT within the political parties (for party 2.0 see Gibson, Römmele, Ward 2003, Marschall 2012, Reichard/Boroucki 2015, Bieber 2014aFitzpatrick 2018). With the development of the Pirates party, there was often a focus on the mobilization of citizens within representative democracy (Römmele, Gibson, Lusoli, Ward 2004).…”