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How do we encourage greater public inclusion in Internet governance debates?
The Internet is neither purely public nor private, but combines public and private networks, platforms,…
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Does crowdsourcing citizen initiatives affect attitudes towards democracy?
Exploring how involvement in the citizen initiatives affects attitudes towards democracy
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Do Finland’s digitally crowdsourced laws show a way to resolve democracy’s “legitimacy crisis”?
Discussing the digitally crowdsourced law for same-sex marriage that was passed in Finland and analysing…
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Can text mining help handle the data deluge in public policy analysis?
There has been a major shift in the policies of governments concerning participatory governance—that is,…
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Who represents the Arab world online?
The Middle East and North Africa are relatively under-represented in Wikipedia. Even after accounting for…
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Chinese Internet users share the same values concerning free speech, privacy, and control as their Western counterparts
Many people—even in China—see the Internet as a tool for free speech and as a…
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Online crowd-sourcing of scientific data could document the worldwide loss of glaciers to climate change
The platform aims to create long-lasting scientific value with minimal technical entry barriers—it is valuable…
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Last 2010 issue of Policy and Internet just published (2,4)
We are pleased to present seven articles, all of which focus on a substantive public…
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Internet, Politics, Policy 2010: Campaigning in the 2010 UK General Election
– in ConferencesDrawing attention to the fact that the 2010 UK General Election was dominated not by…
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Internet, Politics, Policy 2010: Political Participation and Petitioning
ePetitions are an interesting research object because not only is petitioning a rather popular political…