Challenges of Online Participation: Digital Inequality in Party-Internal Processes

Thuermer, Gefion

Challenges of Online Participation: Digital Inequality in Party-Internal Processes

dc.contributor.author	Thuermer, Gefion
dc.date.accessioned	2023-08-29T12:09:31Z
dc.date.available	2023-08-29T12:09:31Z
dc.date.issued	2019
dc.description.abstract	Parties adopt online participation methods in the hope of engaging a wider group of participants. However, literature on the digital divide suggests that this is unlikely to happen, as online participa-tion remains dependent on the same factors as offline participation: income, class, education. Based on a mixed methods study of members of the Green Party Germany, this paper discusses the expected and actual effects of online participation tools on the participation of party members. Expectations are that these tools will benefit nearly everyone, but in practice, the goal to engage inactive members is only partially achieved: Younger members and those with lower educational attainments are mo-bilised, but women are not. These effect differ depending on the type of technology. I argue that this is an expression of the prevailing digital divide, which needs to consider not only a socio-demo-graphic divisions, but also the multifaceted effects of different technologies.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	This work has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) (grant no.: 16DII111, 16DII112, 16DII113, 16DII114, 16DII115, 16DII116, 16DII117 – „Deutsches Internet-Institut“)
dc.identifier.citation	Thuermer, G. (2019). Challenges of Online Participation: Digital Inequality in Party-Internal Processes. Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2019: Challenges of Digital Inequality, 8–17. https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.CP/2.2
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.cp/2.2
dc.identifier.eissn	2510-7666
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/107
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Weizenbaum Institute
dc.relation.ispartof	https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.CP/2.32
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Weizenbaum Conference Proceedings
dc.rights	open access
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	News media, journalism, publishing	en
dc.subject	Political science	en
dc.subject	Interactive, electronic Media	en
dc.subject	Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture	en
dc.subject	membership	en
dc.subject	political communication	en
dc.subject	mobilization	en
dc.subject	political activity	en
dc.subject	Federal Republic of Germany	en
dc.subject	Alliance 90/ The Greens	en
dc.subject	political participation	en
dc.subject	online media	en
dc.subject	digital divide	en
dc.subject	inequality	en
dc.subject	Politikwissenschaft	de
dc.subject	Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen	de
dc.subject	online participation	de
dc.subject	party-internal participation	de
dc.subject	Digital Inequalities	de
dc.subject	reinforcement	de
dc.subject	interaktive, elektronische Medien	de
dc.subject	politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur	de
dc.subject	Bundesrepublik Deutschland	de
dc.subject	politische Aktivität	de
dc.subject	Digitale Spaltung	de
dc.subject	Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen	de
dc.subject	Mitgliedschaft	de
dc.subject	Mobilisierung	de
dc.subject	politische Kommunikation	de
dc.subject	Ungleichheit	de
dc.subject	Online-Medien	de
dc.subject	politische Partizipation	de
dc.subject.ddc	320 Politik
dc.subject.ddc	070 Publizistische Medien, Journalismus & Verlagswesen
dc.title	Challenges of Online Participation: Digital Inequality in Party-Internal Processes
dc.type	ConferencePaper
dc.type.status	publishedVersion
dcmi.type	Text
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.booktitle	Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2019
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplace	Berlin
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend	17
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart	8