You can’t say politics on the internet?

Ryan, Bruce

Abstract

I have been interested in how governments use the internet to engage with citizens for a few years now. Of course, I’m very late to this party – e-democracy was ‘invented’ over 20 years ago. I didn’t start from there – I stumbled into researching how poorly Scotland’s most local democracies (Community Councils) use the internet[1] during a career-changing MSc. More research[2] just confirmed this gloomy picture. I currently aim to contribute practically (I’m webmaster and minutes secretary for three Edinburgh Community Councils) and to academic research around (hyper)local democracy. A recent successful workshop about digital engagement for Community Councils has led to commissions for more – these will contribute to both practical action and academic research.

Paper was a contribution to "A Manifesto for Digital Messiness. Working papers of the Communities & Culture Network+6, (2015) ISSN 2052-7268 (http://eprints.whiteros...r-Digital-Messiness.pdf )

• Digital Artefact Type: Website Content
• Publication Date: Jun 16, 2015
• Deposit Date: Jun 14, 2017
• Keywords: Digital democracy, e-democracy, Community Councils, internet, local democracy,
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/946656
• Related Public URLs: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/114803/1/Final-report-A-Manifesto-for-Digital-Messiness.pdf