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From its inception as a public communication network, the Internet was regarded by many people as a potential means of escaping from the stranglehold of top-down, stage-managed politics. If hundreds of millions of people could be the producers as well as receivers of political messages, could that invigorate democracy? If political elites fail to respond to such energy, where will it leave them? In this short book, internationally renowned scholar of political communication, Stephen Coleman, argues that the best way to strengthen democracy is to re-invent it for the twenty-first century. Governments and global institutions have failed to seize the opportunity to democratise their ways of operating, but online citizens are ahead of them, developing practices that could revolutionise the exercise of political power. ** Review "This is a really outstanding book; Coleman?s ideas, as always, are compelling and clear, and presented in a way that grips the reader. This will be the most authoritative and up-to-date text on the topic." ** Peter Dahlgren, Lund University "Democracy is old and it is about compromise, not about getting one's way. Technologies are new, and they attain popularit

Author

Coleman, Stephen

Publisher

Polity Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781509508372

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences