Crowdsourced politics : the rise of online petitions & micro-donations / Ariadne Vromen, Darren Halpin, Michael Vaughan.
2022
JQ4081
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Title
Crowdsourced politics : the rise of online petitions & micro-donations / Ariadne Vromen, Darren Halpin, Michael Vaughan.
Author
Vromen, Ariadne, author.
ISBN
9789811943577 (electronic bk.)
9811943575 (electronic bk.)
9789811943560
9811943575 (electronic bk.)
9789811943560
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 143 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-19-4357-7 doi
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JQ4081
Dewey Decimal Classification
323.0420994
Summary
This book focuses on online petitioning and crowdfunding platforms to demonstrate the everyday impact that digital communications have had on contemporary citizen participation. It argues that crowdsourced participation has become normalised and institutionalised into the repertoires of citizens and their organisations. To illustrate their arguments the authors use an original survey on acts of political engagement, undertaken with Australian citizens. Through detailed interviews and online analysis they show how advocacy organisations now use online petitions for strategic interventions and mobilisation. They also analyse the policy issues that mobilise citizens on crowdsourcing platforms, including a unique dataset of 17,000 petitions from the popular non-government platform, Change.org. Contrasting mass public concerns with the policy agenda of the government of the day shows there is a disjuncture and lack of responsiveness to crowdsourced citizen expression. Ultimately the book explores the long-term implications of citizen-led change for democracy. Ariadne Vromen is Professor of Public Administration at the Australian National University. Darren Halpin is Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University. Michael Vaughan is post-doctoral researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Freie University Berlin.
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Vaughan, Michael, author.
Vaughan, Michael, author.
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CROWDSOURCED POLITICS.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Why do online crowds matter for contemporary citizen politics?
Chapter 2: Who signs and shares petitions and donates money online?
Chapter 3: How do political organisations use online petitioning and crowdfunding?
Chapter 4: What kinds of issues do citizens successfully raise via online petitions?
Chapter 5: Why do personal narratives and stories matter for online political engagement?
Chapter 6: Does online citizen engagement matter for reinvigorating contemporary politics? .
Chapter 2: Who signs and shares petitions and donates money online?
Chapter 3: How do political organisations use online petitioning and crowdfunding?
Chapter 4: What kinds of issues do citizens successfully raise via online petitions?
Chapter 5: Why do personal narratives and stories matter for online political engagement?
Chapter 6: Does online citizen engagement matter for reinvigorating contemporary politics? .