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

dc.contributor.authorThuermer, Gefion
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-29T12:09:31Z
dc.date.available2023-08-29T12:09:31Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractParties 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.sponsorshipThis 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.citationThuermer, 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.doihttps://doi.org/10.34669/wi.cp/2.2
dc.identifier.eissn2510-7666
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/107
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWeizenbaum Institute
dc.relation.ispartofhttps://doi.org/10.34669/WI.CP/2.32
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWeizenbaum Conference Proceedings
dc.rightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectNews media, journalism, publishingen
dc.subjectPolitical scienceen
dc.subjectInteractive, electronic Mediaen
dc.subjectPolitical Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Cultureen
dc.subjectmembershipen
dc.subjectpolitical communicationen
dc.subjectmobilizationen
dc.subjectpolitical activityen
dc.subjectFederal Republic of Germanyen
dc.subjectAlliance 90/ The Greensen
dc.subjectpolitical participationen
dc.subjectonline mediaen
dc.subjectdigital divideen
dc.subjectinequalityen
dc.subjectPolitikwissenschaftde
dc.subjectPublizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesende
dc.subjectonline participationde
dc.subjectparty-internal participationde
dc.subjectDigital Inequalitiesde
dc.subjectreinforcementde
dc.subjectinteraktive, elektronische Mediende
dc.subjectpolitische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kulturde
dc.subjectBundesrepublik Deutschlandde
dc.subjectpolitische Aktivitätde
dc.subjectDigitale Spaltungde
dc.subjectBündnis 90/ Die Grünende
dc.subjectMitgliedschaftde
dc.subjectMobilisierungde
dc.subjectpolitische Kommunikationde
dc.subjectUngleichheitde
dc.subjectOnline-Mediende
dc.subjectpolitische Partizipationde
dc.subject.ddc320 Politik
dc.subject.ddc070 Publizistische Medien, Journalismus & Verlagswesen
dc.titleChallenges of Online Participation: Digital Inequality in Party-Internal Processes
dc.typeConferencePaper
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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dcterms.bibliographicCitation.booktitleProceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2019
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceBerlin
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend17
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart8
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